This book contains texts from the beginning of the life of the Eastern Roman Empire until the first Fall of the Great City (1204). Each text included in this volume encapsulates a unique message and a specific purpose. For this reason, each one is different in both linguistic form and content.

However, they all share a common goal: to reveal the traditions, beliefs, culture, ideas, dreams, and thoughts of an entire world, the world of the Eastern Roman Empire. Anyone who wishes to delve into these texts will recognize many elements of modern Hellenism and thus, simply and effortlessly, will ascertain its continuity from then to the present day.

Moreover, the deeper purpose of publishing this book is to showcase, through the diversity of texts, the uninterrupted tradition of our nation’s spiritual life and the unbreakable continuity of Hellenism, which has served as the essential foundation for its survival.

[Excerpt from the text on the back cover of the publication]