Byzantine re-enactment

[Hoplitesmores]

better start calling themselves 'Greeks'

They called themselves Greeks and never stopped.It wans't invented or imposed by greeks or English/French.
In "byzantium"
The majority of the common people spoke greek
The language of the Church was greek
the language of administration was greek
the language of the scholars was also greek
and finally they were called Greeks in the west and by the Pope and by most foreign states.

The romios/roman was a political/religious epithet.

Even my 95 year old grandmother that lived deep in turkey before she was exchanged said "Ellinei" in Ionian dialect using the "ei". :?