Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Byzantines na karni na 13 sun kuma zana kwatankwacin tsakanin yanayin daular bayan 1204 da na Helenawa na gargajiya. Wannan shaidar ta taimaka wajen ƙarfafa ra'ayin wasu malamai, kamar A. E. Vacalopoulos, waɗanda suka ga waɗannan nassoshi, haɗe da sake kimantawa game da tsohuwar zamanin Byzantium, don zama asalin kishin ƙasa na Girka. Tare da asarar Constantinople, wannan kwatancen ya taka leda a ra'ayin "Hellenes" da ke kewaye da barbarians; Choniates ya daidaita sultan Seljuk da Theodore I ya kashe tare da Xerxes, kuma shugaban Kirista Germanos II ya tuna da nasarar John III Vatatzes a matsayin wani yaƙin Marathon
Ko kuma Salamis. A irin wannan hanyar, Theodore II Laskaris ya gwada nasarar da ubansa ya yi da na Iskandari Mai Girma kuma ya ci gaba da ɗaukaka dabi'un yaƙi na "Hellenes" na zamani.