-I do not dispute that the Fathers of the Church borrowed some rhetorical figures from ancient writers, replied Vezirtzis. However, they were mortal enemies of classical education and the culture of the ancients. [...] The defamation of Hellenism by the Church was so systematic that the Greeks were forced to change their name, to rename themselves Romans, Romioi, or Graikoi. In certain frescoes of Mount Athos, various philosophers, Aristotle, Plato, Socrates, Pythagoras, are depicted together with saints and angels. They all wear crowns, have long beards, and are dressed like Byzantine princes. [...] It is known that the Church sought to associate with the ancient sages, at least those it could not bury, by distorting their thought. Isn't this what secondary education students are taught, that antiquity handed over the baton of culture to Byzantium? Christianity, my dear friend, does not continue antiquity, it simply follows it as night follows day. Theology negates philosophy. The former answers everything, while the latter mainly knows how to ask. [Excerpt from the text on the back cover of the edition]