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  @ydkaachillesa93539 сағат бұрын

  Great.

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  @AllTheUrbanLegendsКүн бұрын

  26:32 I'm pretty sure Robin "three-way" Pearson dropped that 3x this episode.

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  @normanwandsworthКүн бұрын

  Bi'-zan-tyne. What is so hard about that pronunciation? 😱

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  @Uzair_Of_Babylon465Күн бұрын

  Great video keep it up you're doing amazing things also do you agree with me that John II was one of the most underrated rulers as his sister Anna is more known to him even though he was the emperor

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  @zzhanz69122 күн бұрын

  This interview just made me love Eastern Roman Empire so much more.

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  @zzhanz69122 күн бұрын

  Didn’t expect Prof. Sarris’ voice to be so animated. Great interview.

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  @TK-js7yz2 күн бұрын

  Traditional date for Christian Armenia is 301, not 314❤

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  @markb84263 күн бұрын

  Love the content

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  @king_cobra54923 күн бұрын

  Constantinople an amazing city.

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  @rjsmind5 күн бұрын

  Great video I learned everything I needed and more

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  @R.E.A.L.I.T.Y5 күн бұрын

  I wonder if the original mosaics survive beneath the bleak blank amnesia of the Islamic erasure.

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  @Zenocrat6 күн бұрын

  Justinian was one of the greatest rulers in human history ... I think he qualifies to crack the more narrow "The 10 Greatest Byzantine Emperors". Not quite like leaving Jesus and Muhammad off the list of the top 10 most influential religious leaders, but close.

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  @Ausplainer6 күн бұрын

  Justinian I is number one. Planning him for the collapse caused by Justin's incompetence and starting Wars on every front after a plague is as unreasonable as blaming alexios for 12:04. His provinces largely held add centres of tax and trade let alone his reforms to law and Roman Prestige. Why would you leave your armies at home to die of plague when it made way more sense to send them away to regions free of plague

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  @dominickwong30026 күн бұрын

  I like your no 1 and no 8. Quietly competent emperors should get more credit

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  @ilijas30417 күн бұрын

  I would add that job performance must be also seen relative to the circumstances. Basil 2 had only his power play with magnates to handle, while Leo 3 had Maslama ante portam from day 1, Manuel had new world order and non-state which could only be held together by the emperors personal excellence, no institutions or widely adopted social contract in place whatsoever. So our Basil 2 could prolong his suffocating of Samuils state piece by piece forever, never be decisive, and always save some work for the next year to conveniently place him out of the vipers nest and always by his army. Question for Robin, and all of you who made your lists: How many of those on the list would have appeared on the SPQR goat list? Top 10 from Cleopatras deathbed to Dandolos swan song. No need to add pre-Christian ones, just how many of our boys would have made it?

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  @TheHistoryofByzantiumPodcast4 күн бұрын

  Caveats: I haven't studied that earlier period and it probably isn't very fair to compare different eras. But I would guess that Augustus, Hadrian, Trajan, Marcus Aurelius, Aurelian, Diocletian and Constantine would probably all be on a Top 10 list. Which only leaves room for 3 others :-(

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  @ilijas304110 сағат бұрын

  @@TheHistoryofByzantiumPodcast I must admit, it completely twisted my perception when I was listening to professor Kaldellis answering your question about excluding Heraclios from his list, whom I had firmly in top 5 until that point. I think that same logic would probably exclude at least Marcus Aurelius, maybe even Hadrian. But for you, as Anastasios fan, it does make sense, even though Anastasios totally dwarfs them both in my opinion, taking over after the whole 476 non-event, and very eventful Zeno circus, and leaving the conquest capable powerhouse 20 years after. None of them had such challenge to overcome, let alone overcome it with such stellar performance. Thanks for enabling us to talk about these things. I was born and raised just a few kilometers from Justinians birthplace, and never had a chance to discuss these things before you created this community!

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  @v4enthusiast5418 күн бұрын

  Nice to have some Nikephorous Phokas representation on there

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  @giannisgiannopoulos7918 күн бұрын

  The Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantine) may have "started " in 330 with the inauguration of Constantinople ( Byzantion), but as a matter of fact was already running since 284 after Diocletian's partition. 476 is a wrong narrative since the West, a great deal of it, was recovered by Justinian I some 60 years later. Odoacer and Theodoric were under the higher authority of the (Eastern) Roman Emperor in Constantinople and they were serving as Regents, not independent Kings. When they decided to act in an anti-Roman manner and independently, were eliminated. 1. Basil II 2. Justinian I 3.Heraclius (heretical) 4. John II 5.. Alexios I 6. Anastasius I (heretical) 7. John I 8. Nikephoros II 9. Leo III (heretical) 10. Constantine V (heretical)

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  @Onezy058 күн бұрын

  Very good explanation and list, but you misspelled 'based' as 'heretical'

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  @giannisgiannopoulos7918 күн бұрын

  @@Onezy05 thanks. Corrected.

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  @Onezy058 күн бұрын

  I really enjoyed your list! Some interesting choices, and I can completely understand the argument for Anastasius being number 1. Such a capable administrator. I also quite liked how you limited the emperors from 476 till 1204. I personally prefer to rank the emperors all the way from 330 to 1453 (spoiler: Constantine I is the best imo) but I thought I'd try and copy you and limit my own top 10 to your specified timeframe:: 10) Justinian I (just about) 9) Basil I 8) Manuel Komnenos 7) John Tzimiskes 6) Alexios Komnenos 5) Basil II 4) Leo III 3) John II Komnenos 2) Anastasius 1) Constantine V

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  @hexitg98178 күн бұрын

  What a great episode. Really liked your list! You should someday do top 10 most interesting emperors. I feel like people want to see Justinian on this list just because he is a really interesting character. Thank you Robin for making in my opinion the best history podcast out there

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  @Onezy058 күн бұрын

  Yes, lots of people seem to conflate interesting with good when assessing an emperor. I think Justinian's interesting, but then I also think Justinian II and Andronikos Komnenos are too. And they were far from good emperors lol

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  @tylerellis90978 күн бұрын

  I’m something of a Isaac Angelos enjoyer myself

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  @teblesz57838 күн бұрын

  I must say with the criteria stated the list just fits. also the choice of time period to judge emprors from being the 'hegemony of Constantinople' fits very well with the concept of greatest byzantine emperors. nice on both of those fronts

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  @christospanagopoulos58218 күн бұрын

  Very interesting ranking. But even you have the prosopography of justinian although not include him in the list. Justinian was not the best character in history, but for sure is in the top ten Byzantine emperors if not number 1. The plagues and the dark years from the volcanic eruptions were not on his side other wise the course of history might be very different and now the people of spania might speaking Greek. Nice job though. Cheers!

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  @Modulates8 күн бұрын

  Listened to it on Spotify already (with my walk). However, since I cannot be bothered to write an email at the moment (this will be changed in the next few days). I would like to start by saying, I love the post-amble. I also got really scared I missed some content, when you said after the narrative. Additionally, the list is truly good. I definitely think it's a surprise, and definitely a realistic list. I like that you added Heraclius. I'll do a top 10 Byzantine Emperoers (up to 1204) and then a post period when the narrative is fully complete. I will probably also do another "all roman emperorers" list at some point. (Spoiler, Augustus will take the top of that list, due to bias, but also due to the ability to become an emperor as well as the political talent and the war know-how, along with Agrippa). I'm starting around 457 A.D (to keep within the byzantine podcast period) Anywho, thanks as always, a phenominal episode Robin, thank you for all that you do. 10. Phokas 9. Anastasius I 8. Constantine VII 7. Tzimiskes 6. Basil I 5. Romanos I 4. Alexios I 3. Leo III 2. Manuel I 1. Basil II (who's surprised)

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  @faheemihsaasofficial91108 күн бұрын

  The greatest sultan mehmed fatih❤ the Osmani Ottoman empire

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  @avemnevoiesideiarba9 күн бұрын

  Omg no Justinian?? Or Manuel K? Very sad 😢

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  @drauke9 күн бұрын

  Justinian is not on the list?!? 😢

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  @wasneeplus9 күн бұрын

  Personally, I've always had a soft spot for John II Komnenos. While you could argue he had it easy, since he inherited a stable empire from his father, he is just such an admirable figure in every way.

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  @chriskw43628 күн бұрын

  I wouldn’t say stable at all. Asia Minor on the map was under Roman control in reality the whole thing could collapse in an instant. He was methodical and careful. But yeah one of the top for sure.

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  @hexitg98179 күн бұрын

  Cant wait to listen to this!

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  @olefredrikskjegstad59729 күн бұрын

  A very interesting list, with a number of interesting people on it.

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  @sotirismitzolis51719 күн бұрын

  ΥΕΑΗΗΗΗΗΗΗΗΗΗΗ ΒΑΒΥΥΥΥΥΥΥΥΥΥΥ WE HAVE BEEEN WAITING FOR THIS SINCE EPISODE 1a

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  @KeithSimmons-nh9en9 күн бұрын

  This is superb

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  @mostafaahmednasr62110 күн бұрын

  Hello !! I wanted to ask you if there are any remains of the Tzykanisterion ! I always founded fascinating

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  @TheHistoryofByzantiumPodcast9 күн бұрын

  That area is mostly hotels now but excavations continue

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  @mostafaahmednasr6218 күн бұрын

  Thanks a lot !!

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  @PhireHandy11 күн бұрын

  Just discovered this podcast and have been loving it up to this section on Islam, as it suddenly feels like a very abnormal/controversial take on Islamic history. Plus, Tom Holland is kind of a quack - didnt he make a whole documentary claiming that Muslims prayed to Petra or something lmao

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  @mkilbir394011 күн бұрын

  The claims made by this so-called professor were so wild and divorced from any reality or understanding of Islamic history that it takes someone without sound reason or logic to make them! in fact, even the hardest orientalist didn't make these wild claims. it's clearly his own opinion, and it's also clearly an opinion that the mainstream historians do not share with him. The man was desperately trying to sell a book about his destorted version of Islamic history and the fact that he claimed that Muslims prayed to Patra, which has never been claimed by any historians tells me all that I needed to know about his "Agenda". It's sad, really, how an otherwise reasonably well put togther Podcast like this could be tainted by these outright lies!

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  @kidmohair815113 күн бұрын

  "...and the need for humans [of all faiths] to express themselves...." that was a lovely way to end this video. thank you.

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  @ebusitanus13 күн бұрын

  These cisterns are a testament of the progresive roman decadence. Hard pressed by continuous sieges and the bad state of repair of the old aqueducts these romans started to abandon the old cannon of ensuring clean fresh water for the population in order to move towards such huge water reservoirs were cleanliness was of secondary importance. Little surprise when it came to the point there was not enough water pressure anymore to clean the waste water conduits and the same man who had built the marvel of the Hagia Sophia had lost the knowledge of ancient roman water managment and dove with his cisterns and little water presure towards the bubonic plague

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  @karlthepotter422813 күн бұрын

  Thanks Robin 😊

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  @pierolivierpc14 күн бұрын

  theodosius cistern on gmap says its now 30$ 😢

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  @rts839814 күн бұрын

  good video keep it up

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  @spankflaps136514 күн бұрын

  2:04 For a small fee you can book the cistern.

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  @seyyah-alem746714 күн бұрын

  It had a creek called Lykos which is Vatan street now.

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  @Uzair_Of_Babylon46514 күн бұрын

  Great video keep it up you're doing amazing things 😁👍😊

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  @thomaseriksen688514 күн бұрын

  Super

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  @hexitg981714 күн бұрын

  You can tell how passionate John Giebfried is about Baldwin II. Great guest!

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  @hexitg981714 күн бұрын

  I love these videos!

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  @MarcusAgrippa39015 күн бұрын

  Heraclius was badass even in old age

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  @GeorgeFradkin16 күн бұрын

  Thank you

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  @Uzair_Of_Babylon46516 күн бұрын

  Great video keep it up you're doing amazing things also who do you think is the most underrated byzantine emperor and empress?

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  @TheHistoryofByzantiumPodcast16 күн бұрын

  I don't know about Empresses. If we know anything about them then they are rated. For Emperors: Anastasius and Romanos Lekapenos

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  @Uzair_Of_Babylon46516 күн бұрын

  @@TheHistoryofByzantiumPodcast great choices 👍

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  @donglinruan773517 күн бұрын

  Excellent! Thank you so much!

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  @kidmohair815117 күн бұрын

  the remnants of believers and infidels intermingled like their bloods

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  @AllTheUrbanLegends19 күн бұрын

  I'm so happy that you've put this on KZread. This is the episode where I'd left off. I had been listening through on different podcast platforms but it's so much easier here. Cheers!