From: SolomonW@citi.com   
      
   On 08 Oct 2021 21:14:38 GMT, reader wrote:   
      
   >>> https://time.com/6101964/fabricated-fall-rome-lessons-history/   
   >>   
   >>It is a literary thing. In September of 476 AD, Western Roman emperor   
   >>Romulus Augustus was forced to resign his office. An early Romulus was   
   >>considered the founder of Rome.   
   >   
   > That is only part of the story.  The eastern part of the empire with the   
   > cappital at Constantinople and a line of roman emperors persisted until the   
   > 15th century.  They considered themselves fully roman.   
      
   In the 1800s, when Greece was expanding into the islands, the locals made   
   it quite clear that they were not Greeks but Romans.   
      
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