Episode 250 - Retaking Anatolia
The History of Byzantium
Robin Pierson
4.8 • 4.9K Ratings
🗓️ 25 August 2022
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
We talk about why the Romans didn't have more success in fighting the Turks. Was there a better way to fight the nomads? Or was it not really about tactics but strategy?
Period: 1070-1180
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| 0:33.0 | The year is 395 AD. |
| 0:36.4 | Theodosis, the last sole ruler of the Roman Empire is dead. |
| 0:41.6 | The Western Roman Empire falls under the control of the Vandal General Stilico, |
| 0:46.2 | regent to the child Emperor Hanoiress. |
| 0:48.4 | Whilst in the East, the adolescent Arcadius comes under control of the Protorian Prefect Rhavenus. |
| 0:56.0 | When the murder of the Protorian Prefect in front of thousands of witnesses goes unpunished, |
| 1:01.0 | the Imperial Court of the East is plundered to chaos as senators and officials scheme and canive, |
| 1:07.4 | to gain control of the Empire. |
| 1:11.0 | Out of the chaos rises a unit, ruthless, hungover power, |
| 1:16.0 | and determined to put his troubled past behind him. |
| 1:19.6 | The murder triggers an army of barbarians commanded by a Gothic king to go on a rampage through Greece unchecked. |
| 1:27.4 | In the midst of the carnage, a farmhand and an army veteran make a journey to Constantinople, |
| 1:33.6 | to raise the alarm, but become entrapped in the intriguing street politics of the city. |
| 1:39.0 | Meanwhile, a young ambitious procurator discovers a plot that threatens to undermine the very fabric of the Roman Empire. |
| 1:48.0 | With the help of a Persian money-changer and a loyal Gothic body-card, |
| 1:53.0 | he follows the trails of clues deep into the underworld at Constantinople, |
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