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>We would not have the classical Greek literature (& science, to the degree they were different) in the west today without the Arabs scholars. The Byzantines p
by omazurov 9y ago
>We would not have the classical Greek literature (& science, to the degree they were different) in the west today without the Arabs scholars.
The Byzantines preserved the classical Greek literature much better. They preserved it in the language it was written and which they still understood. When, starting the early XV, the bulk of that literature was translated into Latin and disseminated, thanks to Guttenberg, through Italy and Europe, the true rebirth started.
- mkempe 9y agoThank you. It's frustrating that so many people talk as if the Byzantines had zero contact with Western Europe for a thousand years.
- mabub24 9y agoThere was also the Toledo School of Translators in the city of Toledo whose translations of Arabic, Greek, and Hebrew texts in the 12th and 13th centuries were influential in bringing that knowledge into European universities. Toledo, at this time, was extremely cosmopolitan by that era's standards. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toledo_School_of_Translators https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toledo_School_of_Translators