Episode 265 - The 10 Greatest Emperors with Anthony Kaldellis
The History of Byzantium
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Constantine's Decision to Build Byzantium
Constantinian chose the site of Byzantium for strategic reasons or was it sort of the right empty space to build a new realm. I don't think Constantine was thinking about, hey, what happens is some enemy who's massively more powerful than the Roman Empire reaches the point where I'm going to build a city? He wasn't thinking that way at all. By putting it there, he clamped to the Balkans and Asia Minor and by extension Syria together and it worked. So I credit his genius with that.
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