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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: epicure who wrote (75841)3/19/2000 11:08:00 PM
From: Ilaine  Read Replies (3) of 108807
 
The problem with asserting that the Irish monks preserved ancient Greek and Roman civilization, including literature, science, drama, philosophy, and so on, is that the same didn't need preservation, as they were vibrantly alive in Byzantium for almost a thousand years after the fall of Rome. Cahill's book is entertaining, quaint, but insular, as is so much that is laudatory of the Irish. I know why the Dark Ages of Europe were so dark ~ no Greeks. It's no accident that the Renaissance began immediately after the fall of Byzantium began in earnest, and its scholars started migrating to the west.
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