I know, right? This channel is a perfect complement to podcasts like History of Byzantium.

Right now, my tentative plan is to do Basiliscus, Zeno, and Anastasius then take care of Heraclius, Constans II, and Constantine IV so that I will have everyone up to Leo III taken care of. At that point, I will begin working forward, so right now, Constantine V is looking like he is eighth in my Byzantine Emperor queue.

I don't recall exactly where I found the images that I used for this video or what they were called, but I'm pretty sure that I got all or most of them from Google images. Try varying up your search terms a little bit and you might find it.

Right now, it is a tie between the 5th Century and the age of the Comnenoi.

Thersites the Historian mine is probably the 7-8th centurys and komnenoi

There are some. The most famous is a porphyry bust. He looks like Ice Cube without a beard.

@@histguy101There is a marble bust of him as well. Justinian I seems to be the last Emperor with one of those (or rather, the last with a surviving marble bust)

@@morsecode980 Yes, it's unfortunate. There are actually a lot of late Roman busts that have no images available online, and you have to travel to Turkey to see them. There are also written accounts of imperial portraits/statues being commissioned as late as the 8th century, many of which were probably bronze and don't survive. I believe there's an account of Constantine V commissioning a statue of himself erected in the hippodrome, and he was an iconoclast.

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I think that the main factors were geography and wealth. The Eastern half of the Empire was largely connected by sea, so it was easier for the East to recover by shifting forces around quickly to hot spots. Also, the Danube and Persian frontiers were largely mutually exclusive, so one could stand even if the other folded. On the other hand, if the Rhine fell, this directly endangered Italy, Gaul, and Spain, the vast bulk of the Western Empire. The lack of easy sea access to some areas like northern Gaul, Britain, and interior Spain also meant that it was relatively easy for usurpers to arise and have time to consolidate local power, meaning that it was simply harder to the be the Emperor of all the West. As for wealth, the East controlled 3/4 of the total wealth and population of the Roman Empire, so it was easier for them to rebuild shattered armies and damaged cities while also giving them the luxury of being able to buy off some of their enemies at key moments.

You think it was the Eastern half wealth that let Leo I not be as much as a puppet as maybe Aspar wanted him to be?

To an extent, yes. Leo clearly had the funds to go and hire Isaurians behind the back of Aspar. Perhaps we should also consider that not all puppets are equally pliable and maybe the deal between Leo and Aspar left Leo with more governing authority than his Western colleagues enjoyed.

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I have greek descent and im romanian, most romanians are latin speaking thracians most of our ancestors where in the roman army at some point and even emperors in the west and east.

@@marcelcostache2504 i know that. I am romanian and i have more ancestors Latin and greeks by to Trajan - To Justinian Constantine Leo etc ... :))) my blood is latin. And i am roman thracian force (plus: byzantine because i am orthodox)

@@cassiusquintilianustiberiu6889 We are Romans, besides Romans where always a mix of indo-europeans, to be roman is to have greek culture to speak latin or greek, its that simple this is way i hate all the crazy romanain and there Geto-dacian propaganda, like the dacians never took part in the roman army or roman culture!. Go and see Constantin`s Arch in Rome it has dacians on it! maybe because they where part of the empire in some way.

@@marcelcostache2504 poti traduce putin ? Inteleg insa nu tot

Saladin was almost certainly a Kurd, however I see no evidence to suggest the Isaurians were. Their territory was outside the range both of modern Kurds and of the areas conquered, and presumably settled, by the Medians (likely ancestors of Kurds). In addition the Isaurian birth-name of emperor Zeno, Tarasis Kodisa Rousombladadiotes, does not really sound anything like the names of old Median and Iranian rulers (although this is not definitive proof as I am not a linguist). The fact that they were called mountain folk by the Romans does not really tell you much. Anatolia and the surrounding region is full of mountains and in ancient times had a wide variety of people, many of whom were also known as mountain peoples, such as the Armenians.

Is there any proof that the kurds are an offshoot of the isaurians?

Probably not no. The kurds lived closer to iran while isauria was in anatolia

@@TheMindtwistah if Saladin is Kurdish than I am South Dakotan

He was from dacia if you want to call them romanians at this point they where just romanized thracians around the X century they became proto-vlachs most of them where doing there best to survive gepid/avar and later slavic invasions. He even looks like one of my uncles same hair same crazy eyes ect.

@@marcelcostache2504 deci era roman

@@marcelcostache2504 oricum dinastia macedoniana amoriana anegloida de unde vin eu sunt greci plus palelologos plus heraklion

@@mylifeisgoodgg intru-n imperiu cum era cel roman identitate etnica nu avea asa de multa importanta, dar el era 100% din dacia. Era probabil unul dinte ultimi imparati care vorbea latina fluent, probabil cu un acent balkanic. He was born Leo Marcellus in Thracia or in Dacia Aureliana province in the year 401 to a Thraco-Roman family, Dacian origin Este mai mult decat clar ca era Proto-vlach precum era si Justinian 60 de ani mai tarziu.

@@marcelcostache2504 exact deci iustianian era roman de al nostru?

No no. I don't think so? EDIT: I don't think Serbia was a 'thing' yet. Idk how the migration factors into it.

Serbs are a slav tribe..the ancients Scythians , Thrace were another tribe which lost in the centuries...well mixed with the Greeks n others... Spartacus was Thrace

@Stefan S anyways..we all mixed in a way

@Stefan S sorry but let me disagree with u. Usually ppl mixed in the ancients times by rapes. Not only with other tribes but n with civil wars. Back then,womens had a different view. They choose the strongest,bit of course not always,in Japanese civil wars,womens tight with ropes themselves in a chair position n then suicide with a knife...that do it for not do they bodies aftistic moves n die with a kind of beauty...omg what a brave death...only the respects u can ve for this womens...i stop here cuz i ll start to deezy u ...

@Stefan S btw Philippos is in your photo? U know that he had one eye after a battle n if u know which tribe was prisoner?