Re:The Road from Rome
by EarlKing on Saturday April 17, 2021 @12:21AM
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The fleeing of scholars from Constantinople to Venice is comparable to the fleeing of scholars from Ionia to mainland Greece in the wake of the failed Ionian Revolt which kickstarted the golden age of Greek philosophy. They appeared at the right place and time with the right ideas which took root and transformed Western Europe.
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It’s humbling to trace these kinds of intellectual lineages. Makes you appreciate the millennia of accumulated knowledge we’ve inherited/how everyone seems to be standing on the shoulders of the past.