Hellenes: >Eeew, Asiatics and their slavish devotion to their

>Greek view of 'Asians': ancient and cultured but effeminate, servile, degenerate and pretentious
>Roman view of Greeks: ancient and cultured but effeminate, servile, degenerate, impious and pretentious
>Latin view of Byzantines: ancient and cultured but effeminate, servile, degenerate, impious and pretentious
>English view of French: ancient and cultured but effeminate, servile, degenerate and pretentious

There seems to be a pattern here.

>>3103372
>Latin view of Byzantines: ancient and cultured but effeminate, servile, degenerate, impious and pretentious
>impious
Not even a little bit.

>>3103847
The Latins barely considered the Greeks to be real Christians. Of course it was the same the other way around.

>>3104005
t. Constantine

>>3103296
bump

>>3103296
Didn't that change mostly happen because of Alexander the Great? He adopted many Persian ideas, including emperor-worship.

>>3103296
When you're suddenly in charge of tens of millions of king worshippers it very quickly starts to seem like a good idea

>>3107414
Proskynesis was adopted by the Persians from the Assyrians, Medes, and Noe-Babylonians who did it before them. But the issue is that Alexander and especially the Seleucid dynasty, really pushed it further.

>>3107429
>When you're suddenly in charge of tens of millions of king worshippers it very quickly starts to seem like a good idea
But the Persians did not worship their Kings. The very idea was offensive to them and their religion.

Greeks actually did, with their Hero-cults and shit.