Episode 265 - The 10 Greatest Emperors with Anthony Kaldellis
The History of Byzantium
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The Negatives of Byzantium
The most disappointing part of Basel's project is that it failed, he says. The way Roman polity worked and the mechanisms by which he bound other people to himself did not intersect. He never found a way to perpetuate those circles of dependency to his heirs. I mean, in other words, it was this spectacular effort to do something that couldn't last.
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