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Robert Byron. The Byzantine Achievement
The Byzantine Achievement
Table of Contents
Part I. The Historical Image
Chapter 1. The Historian
Chapter 2. The Greeks
Chapter 3. The Byzantines
Part 2. The Anatomy
Chapter 4. The Triple Fusion
Chapter 5. The Imperial Chronology
Chapter 6. The Substance of the State
Chapter 7. Trade and the Bezant
Chapter 8. The Quest of Reality
Chapter 9. Culture
Chapter 10. The Joyous Life
Chapter 11. Battle for Europe
Bibliography
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Robert Byron
Published by Good Press, 2021
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When a man is drawn to a woman, he may want her body; there is explanation in that. But when he falls in love, motive defies analysis. The Greek seaboard is also of two elements. In the brown mountains, the rosy air, and the sapphire sea; in the golden temples and classic sites; in the broken churches and luminous mosaics, sad residue of the Empire; in the temperament of the people itself; in these lies the body. And the other? It is the essence which defines the Romiosyni, the Greek world, and eludes the comprehension of man. Byron knew it. When he set sail the second time for Greece, invested with all the paraphernalia of mock romance, he alone, of all his contemporaries, harbored no illusions of "a race of heroes." He said once, to a friend, who had suggested visiting Homeric sites in Thrace, "Do I look like one of those emasculated fogies? Let's have a swim. I detest antiquarian twaddle." For Greeks, the epitaph of the greatest Philhellene is written in those words, "Let's have a swim."
Exactly a century ago, the road of practical Philhellenism was plain. The Greeks were fighting, before Italy or Germany or any of the Balkans had fought, to regain national existence. Philhellenes fought with them. Today that existence is assured. Practical Philhellenism must be the Philhellenism of reconstruction.
