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[Paphitis]

It is true BIG!

Go and do some research about Byzantine Greeks destroying much of Greece's rich inheritance.

For example, when Justinian closed the Platonic_Academy Platonic_Academy,Theodosius caused the partial destruction of Alexandria Library. The Destruction of the Pagan Temples and banned the Olympic Games How a Catholic Emperor Banned the Olympic Games ~ Canterbury Tales by Dr. Taylor Marshall

Destruction of Pagan Temples

http://penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/enc ... emple.html

Byzantines Ban Olympic Games.

http://taylormarshall.com/2012/08/how-c ... ympic.html

Destruction of the Library of Alexandria by Theodosius

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destructio ... Alexandria

It was a fully systematic campaign on destroying Hellenism, pagan temples, art and sculptures from the Hellenistic Period.

[Paphitis]

"More damage was done to the Parthenon in 1801-2 than in the previous 2,200 years" Melina Mercouri, former Culture Minister of Greece (The Times, 15.1.83).

In fact the Parthenon Elgin saw, was not as well preserved as the Parthenon visitors see in Athens today; the latter is a result of several reconstructions of the building by the Greek Archaeological Service. The Parthenon Elgin saw was a ruin. It had been converted first into a Greek church, when much of the sculpture was deliberately defaced, then into a mosque.


http://www.theguardian.com/education/20 ... .parthenon

[Sotos]

Same thing happened everywhere... lots of pagan symbols were destroyed... in England they would even burn women alive if they considered them "witches"... and that happened much more recently than the times you are talking about. So whats your point?