
Episode 265 - The 10 Greatest Emperors with Anthony Kaldellis
The History of Byzantium
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The Importance of Sources
Fazal was "a very opaque person, I think he was opaque even to his own contemporaries" He inherited an empire that had been fortified and strengthened by decades of other people's campaigns. The listeners' pushback would just be the kind of military victories and length of reign.
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