A few years after my active involvement in the CANE [Summer] Institute, I was invited by Dr. Julianne S. Cooper, Director of the 1997 CANE Institute, to give the after-dinner speech at the closing banquet. Needless to say, I was both honored and humbled by this invitation. Like the transcendental poet John donne, I begn my lesson (speech) with my name. "The Roumans as Greeks: A Personal Reflection." I began by saying, "Before you stands John Rouman, at once somewhat of a contradiction. Throughout my ong career of teaching, well over three decades, students found that I had the wrong name. How could John Rouman be a Greek teacher? He had to be a Latin teacher! But there it is and in this conundrum of freshmen lies a deep insight into the relationship of Greece and Rome. My name is Rouman precisely because, throughout the long period of the Byzantine Ages, the Greeks of Constantinople, Greece, and Anatolia regarded themselves as Romans. And so they were." With this beginning I tried with some success to provide some light, but inspiring and serious thoughts about our noble profession.