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I believe there are three events that contributed to the increased Greek influence
When the Roman Republic conquered the Greek city states, it led to an influx of educated Greek slaves. They would educate Romans, including the future emperors. They would eventually become citizens themselves.
Several centuries later, the Edict of Caracalla in 212 AD granted citizenship across the Empire where Greek was widely spoken still.
the roll out of Christianity accelerated due to the Greek-speaking world.
I wanted to suggest this because it's what I've come across in my reading but I don't have a source for it and think it would improve the article to include these factors more succinctly Elias (talk) 21:31, 26 January 2023 (UTC)Reply
There was no "Hellenization" of the Byzantine Empire. The article itself is misconceived. First, the Roman East had already been linguisticaly and culturally Hellenized by the time the Romans first arrived there as a conquering force. Second, the article's introductory sentence claims to discuss "the spread and intensification of ancient Greek culture, religion and language in the Byzantine Empire". Language, culture and religion and three distinct entities. It is only with regards to the first of the three that the Byzantine Empire can be indisputably said to have been "Hellenized". The inheritance of ancient Greek civilization and, of course, religion were elements of Byzantine/East Roman culture at tension with Christianity and Romanness... (NB: Greek, as testified by payrological evidence from Egypt, had already been used an official language of the Roman administration in the East since at least the imperial period -- see Adams, Bilingualism and the Latin language, pp. 547-9, 600-608).Biz (talk) 05:34, 17 August 2023 (UTC)Reply
I'd prefer UK but since we are here, I'd rather move we delete this article.
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it contains no content that isn't already elsewhere
incorrect basis as there was no hellenisation: Greek was already being spoken from the time of Augustus, and the adoption of Christianity simply increased the importance of Greek as it was a more sophisticated language where God-splitting was more possible.
