In the wake of the downfall of the Western Roman Empire and the intellectual collapse of Athens, Byzantine scholars engaged in preserving the Classical Greek language and its literature. Thus they became the guardians of a vanished culture. This article presents the grammatical and literary efforts of a few of the most famous Byzantine scholars, from Arcadius of Antioch to George Choumnos.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original content at https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1709/famous-grammarians--poets-of-the-byzantine-empire/.