If there's one thing I have learnt from history, it's to never accept a banquet invite from an old enemy.

"because, you know...'there can only be 1' to quote Highlander roflmao

This is why I hate the notion that after the fall of Rome, Western Europe was plunged into a "dark age" its so disgusting inaccurate and grossly oversimplifies the several states, kings, people, beliefs, innovations into a "Dark Age" Its also so annoying because my history teachers wouldnt talk about anything in Europe from 476-1000 and simply disregard it as the "Dark Ages"

I've watched some 10 hours of your content in the last two days...sort of just leaving it as background noise as i do my work as a finance professional ....yeah i know weird combo but god damn history is lovely and these videos super dope

King Theodoric's problem with Boethius was political, not personal. It stemmed from the latter supporting the wrong successor. See THE GOTHS by Heather. The key thing Belisarius did was not taking Rome, which was fairly straightforward, but taking the capital at swampy Ravenna, which was quite difficult, and had also been difficult for Theodoric when he took it from Odoacer.

I listen to this in the background as I'm studying to become a holistic nutritionist!

Theodoric made his capital at Ravenna -he had some Arian churches built there that were subsequently made into catholic churches full of stunning mosaics.Theodoric's tomb is surmounted by a huge monolith which would have been quite a feat to construct.Theodoric had the great philosopher Boethius executed for treason.

"Not up to war, but was a neoplatonic philosopher." What a millenial lol.

I read that the saxons and Allemani had that same east west split where the western ones were kinda romanized and the eastern ones were kinda hunnicized, so like the Saxons who came Britain were the Roman half and the ones who were conquered by charlemagne a few hundred years later were a rump state of atillas empire.

Love your channel, been listening for years now. Thanks for all your hard work

oh my god a "normal" (non-tabloid) historian! of course not nearly the amount of attention that polemicians and politicians get, but how thankful am I

One thing to add to this. The plague of Justinean hit the Italian peninsula late in this war. It may have played a role in depopulating the cities, or prevented their repopulation and rebuilding after the war. At any rate, the collapse of city culture in Italy dates from this time period and would take half a millennium to recover.

Theodoric, apart from the last few years of his reign, was a very good ruler in Italy. He restored much of the old Roman infrastructure that had been neglected and was very respectful of Roman culture. Pity that Justinian had to wreck the Ostrogothic Kingdom, as it was a pretty good place to live under Theodoric.

"I say this second, who nine generations ago lost his life with the Hreidgoths; and died with them for his guilt. Theodoric the bold, chief of sea-warriors, ruled over the shores of the Hreiðsea. Now he sits armed on his Goth(ic horse), his shield strapped, the prince of the Mærings. I say this the twelfth, where the horse of Gunnr sees fodder on the battlefield, where twenty kings lie." Røk Runestone Sweden

Thersite, your style of history mixed with common sense and honest awareness that somethings are lost in time is remarkable, I hope you are teaching young mines. I would like to hear your take on what is going on now in America in an historic context. I wish you lived in Dalles, Oregon, I'd buy the beer!

lol, brings back memories of my old asterix and obelix comics with their roman-confounding array of different goths 😁

0:00 Intro 0:16 Separation from the Visigoths 2:47 Theoderic Strabo 4:43 Theoderic The Great 6:02 Conflict with Zeno 8:05 Invasion of Italy 9:45 Ostrogothic foreign policy 12:27 Domestic tranquility 15:57 Theoderic's paranoia 18:22 After Theoderic 20:30 Byzantine invasion

Wonderful. I shall be retelling a legendary story of Theoderic at West Stow Anglo Saxon village in Suffolk next week.

Great videos! Perfect depth for someone like me!

Totila deserves his own video..fascinating figure. Comes out of no where and wipes the floor with the romans all the while causing defections through acts of clemency and honor. Ends up cresting his own navy and until basses and his fully funded mercenaries arrive..totilla basically had a string of perfect plays. He died in battle and his successor teias only had a few men left for a last stand.

Congrats for the TRY and the GOOD JOB

I need a first hand source of the first Italian’s experience with wearing pants for the first time

Theoderic was impressive and definitely earned his conquest. Probably the best warrior king between Majorian and Charles Martel.

You referenced that archaeology shows the damage to Italy from the Gothic War to be far greater than that by Gothic invasions. Could you refer me to some good studies or papers on that topic? I'm particularly interested in anything that compares the state of Italy under the late Romans to it under the Goths.

My favorite Gothic Kingdom.

no idea how i even stumbled upon your channel i think the first was a video about the phoenicans

Great presentation. Keep up the excellent job. Theodoric was phenomenal. What a period this was. Also, the worst period in Italian history for sure.

2:09 Ostrogoths settled in Roman lands under King Valamir 420-465 2:47 Some Ostrogoths fought under Attilla The Hun, some under Theoderic Strabo. 4:45 Theoderic The Great. rose to power in 475 after being born in 454. Arian Christian. 6:36 Zeno saw Theoderic The Great as a Threat. 19:54 Emperor Justinian and Belasarius.

long live General Vellisarios ,Romanized Greek Tracian

Can you make a video about Bayezid the Thunderbolt?

Visigoths and Ostrogoths are interesting to me. Hume and Schopenhauer are my philosophers with Hume first. You are an accomplished historian. Hume actually made his living as a historian, is his history respected? Just curious.

Belisarius told the goths he was taking the western throne so he could get in Ravenna. So ya, I can see Justinian wanting him home.

Would you please mentions your sources or further reading in the descriptions in your videos? :)

Soooo... was it *REALLY* Ostrogothic Italy or more like the Italian Ostrogoths?

He didn’t even mention Amalasuntha, the regent queen who announced theohadad as co-emperor. Theohadad then had her imprisoned and killed at lake bolsena.

Odd time machine idea of shooting Justinian after his conquest of Africa

so, Roman Citizen's lived in cities and the Goths lived in their straw tents? I take it the city architectures and artwork and buildings were maintained and there was not constant darkness and chaos...

Goths retained the nobility and infrastructure for the most part so long as the tribute was paid. So it left Italy is a semi autonomous state while affording protection from other tribes. Byzantines came in and created instability while not respecting the nobles those "fellow Romans" and that created resentment they stopped viewing thw east Roman's as brothers ever since then.

Beautiful.. maybe theodoric could had remake western Roman Empire

Italy is a vital part (in fact its cradle) of Rome so no justification needed, what was Ostrogoths justification for taking power there?

So he fell off his horse and died from it. Neither a cause of happiness or sadness. Simply fact

Which of these Goths were the edgiest?

I ❤ Teodorico

I think italy would have been better off if the ostrogoths were not defeated by the romans. The gothic war destroyed italy and it remained divided for more than a 1000 years.

The roman emperor in constantinople was still nominally in charge of italy was he not.

WESTENERS THINK THAT HISTORY IS A NOVEL AND THEY WRITE IT AS THEY WISH

Theodoric was regent for the Visigothic kingdom briefly until the Visigothic king died.

Some interesting comments! Narses the eunuch general was jealous of Belisarius. Narses ran a vindictive campaign against Belisarius back in Constantinople. I disagree with you on Belisarius' conduct in the war across Italy, in my opinion he won over the Italian people and this was recorded in the Wars of Justinian by Precopius. I also made a video about this here-kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hpuanc6m07-weqM.html Best wishes in the continued exploration of this fascinating and dynamic period.

From the primeval and before the arrival and settlement of the Greek in Sicily, etc. before the arrival of the Romans and Gauls and their countries, and so on. he lived in almost all of today's Italy, as the roots and the only serbian (Slavs) people, in the form of these tribes: Gornići, Aequi Volani, Labici, Volsci, Raeci, Ombrici, Marubii, Aurunci, Opici, Salentini, Etrusci, Venetani,… The first perpetrators and settlers of the Serbian tribes living in Italy were also the same Semi Ethiopians, or Greeks, with their settlements in Sicily and the rest of Italy, etc. and then Cartagens goes after them. The Greeks were at that time for 1000 years. before Christ, they were not only all the gatherings of Italy, Sicily, etc. but they went deeply into Italy and there, which they subjugated, and which, again, trampled on by the resident Serbian tribes, lived, as usual everywhere, only at the expense of the prisoners; because the Greeks never fluttered or bathed, nor did they do anything else, played singing, played, acted, acted in their choirs, they were taken away from the aliens, but from each other, and even went to it is completely eradicated. It could not have happened elsewhere in the remains of wild African and Assyrian soldiers, who were probably made up of various nations. The rest were all worked and produced by various Serbian tribes as slaves. By studying the Roman records, we find: Romula with her Ramnezise people, as a soldier, as a homeless person, as a robber, as a single and single, as a man and without faith, land, property, state, house, and housing, with a hundred people of her nationality representatives of future generations and nations Roman, with 1 thousand horsemen and 10,000 pedestrian and raised Rome, founded and raised the Roman state. In order to be relieved, that in order to become what he was doing, what he was going to do, and not with his Ramnezis, with his 100 representatives of future generous families or military chiefs of Egypt, with his 1,000 horsemen and 10,000 pedestrians, he opened the door robbers, thieves, homeless people, and all non-Serbs from all Serbian and other tribes, and he settles in his warlord, in his so-called fortress. In order to survive and not fight each day, with Serbian tribes living in Italy, he kidnap - the Sabin, or Serbian women and girls, and violently abducted them, kidnapped them, and dragged them into his own camp, into their castrum Ramses, or future Rome; and so one takes conditions for young , and, secondly, by distress, the immense Serbian tribe enters into its friendship. The account is right, Rome is expanding, also in the column of Ramsey's Egyptian soldiers, after the death of Romulus or enrichment, after 30 years. he dead, Sabinic or Srb Numa began to appear Pompilius 710 yr. before Christ - like a king. The disagreement of German and other writers against all the days: Slavic, and before Serbian, tribes, already known throughout the world. Tatila went to beat Gotha, not to become their emperor. He worked here with his father and brothers, and why his father came from Greater Serbia, or so called Germanic and Pribaltic, if he does not prosecute and tarnish the Goths, not to raise and strengthen them. He came to these lands to liberate the oppressed and almost completely saturated Serbs, and not to trample them with the Goths.

@39 waste of time

Its a joke with MAGA