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I wonder if he ever thought of that pun (works as well in greek); silently chuckling to himself xD

wow. hope you're very much a byzantine fan now

For me this is a second time I heard of him First time was when I watched Unbiased history of Rome which is such a shame Parody entertainment channel teaches more history than the actuall ones

@@lilestojkovicii6618 the strange thing is that that channel affords a vision of the hole roman empire, that no other media company has ever done (maybe I am wrong, but its still strange).

Really? Who else is saying that?

@@ThersitestheHistorian I got linked to this video in a comment by him on my channel, so i guess me

Just my favorite, although right now I feel myself being drawn toward Basil I the Macedonian.

Lol underrated

For the 5th Century Eastern Emperors and perhaps all the way up to Heraclius, I think that the terms "Roman" and "Byzantine" are more or less interchangeable. If I alternate then it is mostly because I'm on the fence about which term is more applicable to the time period. I suppose the Isaurians using a Luwian dialect would explain why they had trouble gaining acceptance from the population of Constantinople.

Fair enough. If I had to give an input regarding the naming I would say that there is no dispute about Roman and 'Byzantine' or 'Greek' until the coronation of Charlemagne. Even the Pope in his letters called the Emperor in Constantinople "Imperatorum Romanorum". After the questionable death of Zeno, the crowd demanded "A Roman Emperor, an Orthodox Emperor". The name of Zeno was in a luwian/anatolian descending dialect possibly, Tarasis son of Kodis from Rusumblada, Kodis-sa is genitive "of Kodis".

Interesting. From what I understand the term "Byzantine" was invented by French scholars in about the 18th Century. The only reason why I like it is because it helps to distinguish and set apart the medieval, eastern history of Rome from the earlier period.

Initially, as Prof. Ahrweiler mentioned, was used in Sorbonne in the 16th to categorize the the Greek texts of the Empire. "Byzantine". That makes no sense as well since there are were already 300 ys old christian Greek theological texts in Justinian's empire. I doubt if someone seriously claims that Justinian was a "Byzantine" Emperor - whatever that means. Of course there were changes in the Empire. From Latiin speaking, "pagan" (another misused term), Republic, to Greek speaking, Christian, "constitutional" Monarchy. But that happened in 1000 ys and as mentioned, never disputed before 800 AD.

Periodization debates are always fun, aren't they?

No, I think that you are thinking of "xenos". I'm not sure about the meaning or etymology of the name Zeno, but I have always assumed that he adopted it because of the philosopher Zeno who founded Stoicism.

Comes from Latin 'ZENO', which in turn comes from Greek 'Ζήνων', an alternative form or derivative of 'Zeus' (Yes, as in the King of all Gods)

@@haniwa7006 Surprising how many of these orthodox emperors had pagan names. Thinking here of Heraclius the saviour of The True Cross named after Heracles.

So much of your argument is base don when Zeno could have been there personally. The Problem is I don't think the Samaritan account actually intended he was there personally, these kinds of Semitic Texts frequently a King and his Kingdom as inseparable entities, I don't think Antiochus Epiphanes personally performed a Big Sacrifice in the Jerusalem Temple a detail not even in the books of Maccabees, but I do believe his policies result in a Temple of Zeus being set up on the Brazen Altar in December of 167 BC. So I don't think Zeno was ever personally in Samaria, it's was the actions of his Regime. A Church of specially Mary Theotokos being built at this time was probably tied to the whole Henotikon thing, Emperors trying to make peace with the Miaphysites loved to scapegoat the Nestorians and stress their common support of Theotokos. And 482-484 is the timeframe for that being a priority.

dumb conment

Le Benis

Ball Stranger in greek is ξένος or κελτος which gave οι Κελτοι, the Celts : bizzare barbars who washed their hairs with their proper urine, sacrified humans to their gods and affronted completely nude the letal spata or pungio of the roman soldiers.

LOL, when I get to Constantine V, I will dedicate the video to you. What is it about Constantine V that you find so interesting?

The fact that 70-80years after his reign people wanted him back, to rise up again im troubling times. He was also very loyal to his soldiers. When their warship crashed in to a coast. Constantine stayed and helped his men to get a proper funeral. Back to my first point, in 830 when there was an iconaclast vs aconaphile riot going on. The iconaclasts and soldiers broke in to the temple of holy apostalates knelt to his tomb andstarted praying. He also one decisive victorys agianst the bulgars and arabs.

Sry for grammar. I am typing on me phone

Thersites the Historian oh and thanks for replying

Ah, I see. You want to get at the man behind the legend. That's understandable. I wasn't aware that his name was invoked in the 830 riot, but I guess that given his status as the most iconoclast of all of the iconoclasts, that isn't all that surprising.

It makes sense, since Latin doesn't use a soft c. Odoaker.