| "A similar crisis would take place in the days of Charlemagne (I was reading in Kenneth Clark's CIVILIZATION). Western civilization almost lost all record of the Greek contribution then."
Actually, a great deal of Greek and Roman learnign was (effectively) lost to "Western Civilisation" for a few hundred years (in fact, much of it was preserved, just lurking in various monasteries where it wasn't allowed out). Come the Renaissance, however, much of it re-emerged - but as well as coming out of those same monasteries, it also came by way of the East, since vast quantities of Greek and Roman texts had been preserved and copied in Baghdad, which spent about five or six hundred years acting as the "keeper of the Flame" for ancient knowledge.
"The Box Of Beautiful Things" - IGMS#3 "The Man Who Was Never Afraid" - Abyss and Apex #19 |