Ka cika wannan magana: 'Yan Byzantium na ƙarni na 13 sun yi kwatanci tsakanin yanayin daular bayan shekara ta 1204 da na Helenawa na Dā. 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 yi wasa da 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 yaƙi na
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.