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Renaissance Rebels and Byzantine Bias | Greece News
The Renaissance wasn’t just about reviving ancient Greek wisdom—it was built on a bitter paradox: Western thinkers worshipped Greek philosophy while openly despising the Byzantines who preserved it for centuries. After the sack of Constantinople in 1204, this animosity deepened, with figures like Petrarch calling for the empire’s destruction even as he studied Greek texts from fleeing scholars. Driven by insecurity, humanists embraced Byzantine knowledge but mocked its keepers, refusing to credit those they saw as inferior. When Byzantine scholars arrived in Italy, they brought the very Greek…
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