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en-wikipedia-org-802		Greeks - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	22976	3222	69	BC, though the Cypriot syllabary was in use during this period).[163] Scholars compare its continuity of tradition to Chinese alone.[163][164] Since its inception, Hellenism was primarily a matter of common culture and the national continuity of the Greek world is a lot more certain than its demographic.[44][165] Yet, Hellenism also embodied an ancestral dimension through aspects of Athenian literature that developed and influenced ideas of descent based on autochthony.[166] During the later years of the Eastern Roman Empire, areas such as Ionia and Constantinople experienced a Hellenic revival in language, philosophy, and literature and on classical models of thought and scholarship.[165] This revival provided a powerful impetus to the sense of cultural affinity with ancient Greece and its classical heritage.[165] Throughout their history, the Greeks have retained their language and alphabet, certain values and cultural traditions, customs, a sense of religious and cultural difference and exclusion (the word barbarian was used by 12th-century historian Anna Komnene to describe non-Greek speakers),[167] a sense of Greek identity and common sense of ethnicity despite the undeniable socio-political changes of the past two millennia.[165] In recent anthropological studies, both ancient and modern Greek osteological samples were analyzed demonstrating a bio-genetic affinity and continuity shared between both groups.[168][169] There is also a direct genetic link between ancient Greeks and modern Greeks.[170][171]	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-802.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-802.txt