>People think hellenistic culture was killed by islam instead

>>1377348
Hellenism died of old age. People could no longer connect to idealized immortal versions of themselves which is why they switched to monotheism with its emphasis on virtue instead of the farce that was polytheism

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>>1377348
The Greeks themselves killed off Hellenism.

>P-paul was a kike!

Yet the Greeks were persuaded anyway!

>>1377348
I actually do agree with the idea that Greco-Roman culture was killed off by Christianity.

There was a very pronounced rejection of everything associated with 'paganism' by successive Christians. For example, naturalistic art was replaced by stylized and less technically-impressive art; the Church establishment taught that cities were evil and that the peasants were closest to God, which certainly contributed to the decline of complex polities and governments beyond the feudal level, which stifled growth.

>>1377395
Romans moved their capital to the heart of Hellenism then imposed roman-judeo culture center down, it never died out from cultural exchange with the Levant that was in place before Rome even existed