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My favorite part of this whole documentary is the opening scene where hes walking through foot traffic and everyone around him is so wildly confused at what this man is doing LMAO pure comedic GOLD!!!
Yes this byzanteium
The term “Byzantine Empire“ is biased, wrong and continues historical misconceptions. It’s more accurate and correct to say “EASTERN ROMAN EMPIRE” at least.
Byzantium The GLORY OF EAST
Romans built monasteries, in part, to help preserve their literature as the empire fell. I wonder if the Byzantine monasteries had the same purpose.
The archeologist/historian John Romer did a wonderful TV documentary series about the history, art and culture of the Byzantine Empire back in 1997. This guy must have missed it, or was not paying attention?
The Empire that starts as Eastern Roman Empire and gradually became a Greek Empire. Some key facts
1) Romans/Romioi/Greeks (and all other subjects of the Empire) never called themselves Byzantines.
2) Was, before the Arab golden era, the only light of civilization in Europe and North Africa.
3) The Greek philosophy that produced throughout that 11 centuries are matched only with the Classic Greek philosophy.
4) Was the bedrock of the formidable Ottoman Empire.
From the high period of the empire the word Romans hellenized to the word Romioi and became equivalent to the words Hellenes and Greeks, as a description of ethnic group. The modern Greek states (Greece and Cyprus) identify themselves as Romioi=Greeks=Hellenes.
I don't call it Byzantium, but I call it the Eastern Roman Empire.
Brian Ferry.
Istanbul is Turkish for Constantinople, no change
Byzantine Art is absolutely glorious!
Masjid hagia sofya
I really love the music in this documentary
Now HAGIA SOPHIA is back to being a mosque in 2020. So it's back to the future and everything
old is new again. Heard one clueless fake news media guy describing the change over
as the building going back to "its original beginnings". WRONG! it was an Orthodox Christian
Church long before the Ottomans conquered the city. And would there be that much surprise
if a Roman or other more ancient "pagan" temple is somewhere under or near the building?
Say goodbye to Chora church,now back to be a mosque
Oh, why did Constantinople get the works? Oh well, I suppose that's nobodies business but the Turks.
Good documentary! It was very revelating to me when the narrator commented the Pantocrator's icon above the entrance. I never thought about it as such, and yet it makes so much sense! "I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture." (Johm 10,9)
this shit sucks because it doesn't have captions
It was called Βασίλειον τῶν Ῥωμαίων for a reason. It is not Byzantium, it is Eastern Rome!
“THE DOWNFALL OF BYZANTIUM” should be the title. LONG LIVE OTTOMAN EMPIRE!
The Parthenon in Athens was a church dedicated to the Goddess Athena, the Goddess of Wisdom.
The church of Hagia Sophia was also, as the name says, dedicated to the Wisdom( Sophia in Greek).
A coincidence(?) which links the two great centers of Greek culture, the ancient one and the medieval!
Thanks!
I thought the book of Revelations was written by St John not Elijah who was a prophet from old testament times. Art from the book of Revelations was talked about fairly early in the document and I think he said Elijah as the author of the book.
Does anybody know which are the names of the music played at 13 min and 23 min? thanks a lot!!
Empress Theodora persuades Justinian to stay not because she's more patriotic but because of her personal interests while Justinian was leaving because he wanted the will of the people to reign
Rip Constantinople I visit u once I missed Byzantium 😢😢😢
Constantinople. We need to destroy Italy first. Now you know. The Greek Byzantine Empire will Conquer Italian Fascist city states.
The West agreed to help John VIII Paleologus against the Turks, until the people of Constantinople revolted against him when they heard what he'd agreed to. Rather the Turk then the Roman Pope, was the attitude.
33:10
Construction in antiquity: 5 years to build the Hagia Sophia.
Today: 5 decades to build a piece of highway