08-16-2006, 09:25 AM
Quote:Where does that word come from ? Why was southern Italy called "Magna Graecia" ? The Greeks called themselves "Hellenes"
How about that one ?
I know a better one. Why are the pleoples from China, Japan, etc. calling themselves 'Asian' when the original Asia was a smallish district in northwestern Anatolia?
Robert Vermaat
MODERATOR
FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
(Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)
MODERATOR
FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
(Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)
