(December 29, 2014 at 2:41 am)Godschild Wrote:(December 29, 2014 at 1:15 am)Crossless1 Wrote: What the hell are you talking about? They? Who are 'they'? Barbaros was in use in multiple Greek sources long before the Roman Empire existed. Though at first is was more or less a neutral descriptive term signifying little more than non-Greek, it became a pejorative after the Greek/Persian wars.
In any case, I guess I have my answer to my question.
The barbarians destroyed the empire after the empire had become somewhat Christian.
GC
Yes, but I'm not sure why you're sharing that with me. My point earlier had to do with how 'barbarian' was how the Greco-Roman world saw everyone else, whether in a pejorative sense or not. This would have included Persians, North Africans, Germanic and Gallic tribes, Jews -- all of them.
Anyway, carry on.
