The Pope told the Patriarch and Archbishop, that as a learner of Ancient Greek in his youth, he never could have imagined, that one day he would visit her island. Well there isn't much of her poems left, because the Byzantines kept the texts they thought would be beneficial for learning ancient greek grammar, syntax and style and not because of their content. What hasn't been burnt until the middle of the 7th century CE, was used as a palimpsest.
