3: Rome to Byzantium: Transformation of the Roman Empire
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- čas přidán 15. 07. 2024
- In this episode, we discuss the transformation, hellenisation, and orientalisation of the Roman Empire: The Apostolic Age, the Crisis of the Third Century, Diocletian and the Tetrarchy, Christianisation under Constantine the Great, the Byzantine-Sassanian War, the first Byzantine-Arab War, and the reforms of the Emperor Heraclius.
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Columba: / columba_1
Marcus Pertinax: / furiuspertinax - Zábava
As always an enlightening stream on history gents.
so sad I missed this live
Not by much!
You would not believe how hard it was to find a video on a simple subject Rome to Byzantium. So many videos are "history of rome" or "history of byzantine", but both somehow fail to ever address these crucial years and transitions
There was no literal transition, for Constantinople it was still the Roman Empire until it's demise.
A history of the Byzantine State and Society by Treadgold is good
Very interesting and impressive, if a bit deep. Will need a second listen. Excellent reference source too. Thank you.
well worth a second listen. deep and thought provoking.(all in series not just this one)
10/10 - Stellar work.
Cheers & God Bless, gentlemen. Thank you.
AM should do Foundations of Classics
I'm not a classicist, Columba should do it.
Excellent work here, my one and only subscription on CZcams and worth every cent. These 3 men do an excellent job of moving around a complex topic and AM does an stellar job of keeping the trio focused. We should all recognize how important and powerful these streams are; finished 1, 2 and 3 this weekend. Ready for Byzantium.
¡Viva Cristo Rey!
On the Yazedis- or arch-angelicans- yes, they are condemned by the Muslims as Satanists because they honour Lucifer along with other archangels.
I keep coming back to.
DON'T OUTSOURSE YOUR MILITARY!
On Islamic Conquests part of the stream. Its a thing to note, that doing parts of these Conquests, much of Christendom tended to lump Islam and Judaism together as a single religion, not because of Doctrine, but because of the fact that from Middle East to Iberia, the Jews were almost always there, ready to flung open the gates, and to surrender Christian cities over to the incoming Islamic Conquerors.
And I'd like to also add, some say this betrayal of the locals by the jewish merchant and priestly classes doing the Iberian Conquests of Islam is part of the reason for the Alhambra Decree doing the Spanish Reconquest as well. This all is rather curious stuff, which sadly, can't be talked about too much in too much detail in current political environment sadly...
Exactly. This environment will not change, I think.
Interesting, I got an ad today for a video downplaying that J’s did anything wrong in Spain and that the expulsion was unjustified. Who does propaganda on 500+ year old events? Desperate.
@@Bazed.Jewish damage control
Also don't forget about the monophysites, the Armenian hated the imperial government also.
I think if I was living as a 2nd class citizen under Rome, I would fling open the gates for nearly anyone.
And looking forward, at how much the Muslims improved Spain throughout the middle ages, it was certainly worth it.
I love the history of the greco-roman empire.
"With the collapse of the empire in the west, its eastern counterpart became, in reality, an entirely new and independent state, at once Greek by language and Roman in name: 'A Greek Roman empire'."
Roderick Beaton, "The Greeks: a global history", New York: Basic books 2021, pp. 212
The Roman Empire was in a way Greek (or rather a multicultural empire) all the time. In trade Greek was the linqua franca across the Mediterranean. After the conquest of Greece, Levant and Egypt it was spoken and used as administrative language in eastern provinces. Even before that Romans adopted Greek architecture and pantheon, higher classes spoke and wrote much of their their literary in Koine Greek. (For an example Marcus Aurelius' meditations was originally written in Greek) and much of Roman generals' correspondence between eachother (even in the west) was written in Greek.
Gaius Julius Caesar quoted Menander when crossing the Rubicon by saying "anerriphtho kybos!".
"The Roman historian Plutarch reported that at this critical moment of decision Caesar declared in Greek and in a loud voice, "let the die be cast!" and then led his troops across the river. Plutarch renders the phrase in Latin, of course, as "alea iacta est" or "iacta alea est.""
etc. etc.
I find differentiating Roman vs Byzantine somewhat preposterous. People of the empire never called themselves Byzantines so why should we?
I woke up and thats was played
I don't think it's hard to understand how Christianity could spread that far and that fast. We're talking about the height of the power of the Empire, it's roads and its army's are everywhere. Especially before 400 AD. Any idea or technology can use these "arteries of empire", to move around at just this time.
I allow myself to recommend Bart Ehrman (US) on this and nearly every other question concerning early Christendom.
I have a couple of questions which I hope it is ok to ask. 1) do we think that the change from pagan polytheism to Christian monotheism in itself had an impact on the psychology and social attitudes of the peoples of the Roman Empire - as distinct from the the political changes (?) 2 ) this is a bit wild and anachronistic but the map of the the late Roman empire overlaps quite well with the spread of neolithic farmers some 5,000 years earlier from Anatolia up through Europe ... I'm beginning to think that European history is a series of repeated patterns ... for instance the E.U. and the empire of Charlemagne and so on ... maybe I'm over thinking this :)
I agree we can see such patterns play over and over. Like the Frank Germanic tribes versus the other Germans that plays out to this day
Guilt is pretty add on the European psyche
Welcome to Golgumbaz
24:40 it's not related to baal actually, that's ilah al-jabal, mountain god
Yeah once Rome took over Greece and Anatolia in the 2nd and 1st century bc it was almost assured that Rome would be heavily influenced by the Greeks
Video 1/06 Hurrah it is Holy Week 2024 Anniversary of 324 Ad Constantine Sole Rule
While next year will be Anniversary of First Church Council ever held NICAEA 325 AD
Hoping you may wish to make video on 318 Bishops present symbolic of Abraham Army of 318 in Genesis
A complete list still exists somewhere that maybe you can research?
1:44:00 The original sport hooligans
-0.5 playback speed sounds like you guys are trashed haha.
the only think u had to wsay about the greekness of the kosmopolis of byzantium was constantine? really?
Really really poor
Great great stuff boys