Ioannis Kollias wrote:What was the nationality of let us take for example of the founder of the Eastern Roman Empire Constantine the Great and his mother Empress Helen. Were the Hellenes slaves to the Romans or not?
you pose a good question ioannis. i dont see how they could be considered slaves to the romans since they were emperors. I think that if the Empire spoke Greek then a good classification would be Christian Hellenes maybe? Let's not forget that it was a byzantine emperor (Theodosis) that destroyed many ancient greek sanctuaries and even abolished the olympic games so im guessing at one point there would be a distinctin between greek and christian greek.
