Re: Anachronisms in LOTR

On Mon, 24 Nov 2003 22:23:04 -0500, 
Robert J. Kolker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> 
> Hasdrubal Hamilcar wrote:
>> seeds of their science fell on the stony ground of Roman schoolchildren, 
>> and they never bore any fruit again there.  They did eventually bear 
>> fruit in the Middle East when the Arabs took their learning to heart, 
>> but that was a millenium later.
> 
> Moslem scholar brought Greek learning back to Europe in the 12-th and 
> 13-th centuries. It was the foredawning of the Renaissance.
> 
> By the end of the 17-th century Europe had outrun Greek learning and the 
> rest is history.

To be fair, a lot of knowledge was also preserved by the scholars of
Byzantium.  The Arabs deserve a lot of credit, of course, but one should
never forget Byzantium.

-- 
Aaron Clausen

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