If HBO made a spiritual sequel to Rome, "Constantinople" in which era of the empire's history should such a show be set? There are a lot of very interesting periods that could be covered.
If HBO made a spiritual sequel to Rome, "Constantinople" in which era of the empire's history should such a show be set...
Adam Hughes
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Jaxson Rogers
Justinian
Dylan Smith
4th crusade
Nathaniel Fisher
This. I just want my Fourth Crusade dark comedy miniseries.
Wyatt Adams
The period of prosperity under the Komnenos.
Lucas Turner
How do you guys know so much about the Byzantine empire? I was barely taught about it in school, I only know of it because of art history class talking about it briefly
Kayden Morris
from le epic history gaems. they dont know shit beyond surface level knowledge
Andrew White
Personal media consumption, college courses, and online discussions on far better boards than this one.
Carter Ward
Istanbul
Formerly Constantinople
Justin Sanchez
I'm not that user but Justinian is the one thing they always mention about Byzantine history in school. It's like that one song from a popular artist you don't listen to.
>online discussions on far better boards than this one
which boards
William Martinez
they could make a mini-series out of Robert Graves' "Count Belisarius", but people wouldn't take the main character seriously.
Belisarius was ridiculously faithful to the emperor, who kept sending him out to fight battles with fewer and fewer soldiers. eventually Belisarius was winning battles just by showing up ("Holy shit, is that Beliarius? Time to surrender!") and the Emperor got jealous and blinded him.
Robert Parker
Even my super Public American "education" covered the first 4 crusades.
Adam Hernandez
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Logan Ward
>Orthocucks
nah bro make it about the REAL second Roman Empire
Nolan Adams
The cool thing about Istanbul is that it has such a rich and diverse history
First Greek, then Persian, then Roman, then Holy Roman, then Ottoman
Alexander Harris
Julian the Apostate and nothing else
Joshua Sanders
why did this show have such a shit budget? i could barely finish it because of how bad the sets looked.
Tyler Martinez
>First Greek, then Persian, then Roman, then Holy Roman, then Ottoman
Greek.
Then Greek.
Persians lasted like 15 minutes.
Romans=Greeks.
Holy Roman=Greeks.
Latin crusaders lasted like 15 minutes.
Greek again.
Ottomans=Not Constantinople anymore.
translation: Greek.
Justin Rodriguez
You mean from the Carolingian Franks to the rise of Prussia? We'll need like 25 seasons.
Isaiah Peterson
>Dude, I fucking love history! I'm totally addicted to Europa Universalis 4!
Robert Edwards
I think you mean Justinian II Rhinotmetos
Also, Heraclius war against the persians is pure kino
Here some byzantine books for a quick rundown:
>Alexander A. Vasiliev - History of the Byzantine Empire
>Prokopios - The Wars of Justinian
>Anna Comnena - The Alexiad
>Edward N. Luttwak - The Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire