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From the beginning of the Byzantine Empire until the end of the 6^th century [bce], and again from the 9th/10th century, Byzantine literature looked back in the classical ‘literary’ Greek which it employed; but by the 12^th century [bce], the Byzantines were developing ‘new literary genres, including romantic fiction, in which adventure and love are the main motifs, and satire, which occasionally made use of imitations of spoken Greek’.* From the 4^th Crusade (1204) to the fall of Constantinople 91453) a form of vernacular was used for popular and romantic writing, alongside the archaic language used for serious writing.**

*– ibid [Encyclopaedia Britannica 20: 404]

**(per – ibid [Encyclopaedia Britannica 20:] 404

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