Quote Originally Posted by hellenes
Its strange how the Hellenes took the illeterate farmers of Latio and taught them practically everything that would even remotely be called civilised...
So strange how the Romans dissapeared as a culture/language/tradition under the heel of the germanic tribes whilst Hellenes continued...
To add to what Marcus wrote, the Hellenic culture didn't continue any more than any other culture. In fact, a governor of Athens wrote to the emperor in Constantinople complaining that no one in his city could read. Also, when Greece converted to Christianity they converted hard and either abandoned or altered their religious and cultural traditions to match. Therefore no more Elysian Mysteries, no more festivals to Dionysus.

And where do you think ancient Greece went? Lime-kilns of course, because when you burn marble it turns into lime for farming.