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Rome Strikes Back: Belisarius and the Wars of Justinian (ALL PARTS)
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- ๊ฒ์์ผ 2022. 10. 14.
- In the 6th century AD, during the reign of Emperor Justinian, the Roman Empire experienced an extraordinary resurgence, reconquering lands - including Italy, North Africa and Rome itself - that had been lost to the 'barbarians' a century before. Leading these campaigns, a brilliant Roman general named Flavius Belisarius - a skilled tactician, inspirational leader, pragmatic and humane. This is the story of those campaigns, as recorded by Procopius, an eyewitness to many of them, as well as other ancient historians, texts, and archaeological remains.
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๐จ Thanks to Igor Dzis for permission to use his painting, 'Battle of Dara'.
๐ท Thanks to Dr Hugh Willmott, Sheffield University for permission to use photographs of plague burial
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๐Recommended reading (as an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases):
๐Procopius, History of the Wars geni.us/L3Pgc
๐ The Wars of Justinian by Michael Whitby geni.us/Xxrd3
๐ Rome Resurgent by Peter Heather geni.us/ZFoU1
๐The Armies of Ancient Persia: the Sassanians by Kaveh Farrokh geni.us/jMQo3z
๐Late Roman Cavalryman AD 236-565 (Osprey) by Simon MacDowall geni.us/XMGl
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We hope you enjoy the ALL PARTS edition of our Belisarius series! No sponsors, seamless joins and a very small number of factual corrections. (Callinicum was fought on Holy Saturday, not Easter Sunday; Belisarius probably tried to delay the Goths at the Salarian Bridge, not Milvian.. that sort of thing). Thanks again to Legendarian for providing 'Total War: Attila' gameplay footage, links in description. And big thanks to our series consultant Professor David Parnell of Indiana University Northwest, who is well worth a follow on Twitter @ByzantineProf.
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What video will you upload next?
Can't wait for the next series!
What will it be?
Maybe the early napoleonic Era or maybe world War 2? WW2 seems less likely since I've been used to the napoleonic Era but yet again I would like to see your take on WW2
Make videos on ottomonic wars,ww2 and more napoleonic wars
eastern roman empire and belisarius are greek.
the last true roman was clearly aetius, not the greekoid named belisarius.
i think it is time for a series on huns, aetius, and majorian.
@Hello
Belisarius and Justinian were not Greek and they both spoke Latin as their first language.
Dude itโs honesty so insane the amount of opportunities this man had to betray Justinian and didnโt, only for him to still be skeptical of him in the end
Roman emperors have a history of betrayal at the closest level. Don't blame him what with all the chaos around the empire.
Yeah...it looks like even Justinian couldn't believe his luck..like it was too good to be true(or trusted) hence didn't always support him as he should have.
I believe he should slay Justinian and become Emperor himself, then Goths would stay loyal to Rome and Narseus would have to obey him.
@Alex Zero Than he wouldn't be that worth to be remembered would he?
He's like Marshall Zhukov was to Stalin no?
The lifetime of Belisarius itself was like watching a 5 seasons of historical drama series involving battles, plague, and loyalty. Thank goodness this video can summarized his entire campaigns under 3 hours
Why thank goodness? I rather a 10 hour video full of details. You can't sit and learn for more then 2 hours?
@William MacDonald was I not calm? All I Said was I rather a 10 hour video with even more details I love this shit. And love the video so I wasn't saying anything bad. You relax bra
@Dominic calm down dominic
โ@TradeSpace Tech lolllll love it
Belisarius deserves a major film
That is exactly what crossed my mind. His achievement and what he had been through deserves an action drama movie of the most extraordinary budget. However, this era of the Roman Empire is not well known or of interest to the general public. I would be very excited after watching this well-documented history if I were a Hollywood producer (unfortunately I am not :) ). Congratulation! I enjoyed it. Now back to work after 2,5 hours indulging in history.
The Last Roman - What an epic film this would be in my mind - gladiator meets 300 meets braveheart meets arthur - they made a pretty low budget one I think I recall that was them going after a lost standard, it was pretty good, and of course the mini series Rome was fantastic, ahhh I wish they made more of these period pieces, when humanity fought for everything worth fighting for
โ@nupnorth haha nope.
F-ing agreed
I get more excited for these than actual movies with millions of dollars of production value, what a great way to spend 2 hours! Thanks for all the hard work!
Superb!
The creators of channels like Epic History have more respect for the material than any other billion dollar company could dream of. They believe in the idea of quality or quantity.
I can only imagine the emotions of Belisarius, and his men, as they rode into Rome after 70 years of it not being under imperial rule.
great cultural value.
Perhaps, for Belisarius' soldiers per se there were no so much excitement since they were mostly barbarians, either foreign or homegrown like Isaurians, which possibly comprehended the idea of the Empire but still highly likely were ignorant of its history and finer aspects of the Roman culture. This trend tended only to exacerbate as the time went on, i.e. Roman troops were more and more Roman in their name solely and consisted of anyone excepting ethnic Romans properly. The last remnants of Latin-speaking Eastern Romans seized to exist circa 650 AD (excepting Vlachs and Aromanians, but they are actually quite distinct entities already). However, still, in 530-570 AD we can assume Eastern Roman Empire as still an ancient Roman state, since Latin-speaking Romans of Lybia, Sicily, Sardinia, Spain, and Milan have allied themselves with the armies of Constantinople. At this point, idea of unity was still in its power, albeit somewhat diminished. So, it is highly likely, that citizens of the City of Rome were more impressed with the Empire coming back than Caucasians/Anatolian barbarians fighting under imperial banner and campaining in distant lands unfamiliar to them.
@San Junipero This is so incorrect to everything I've read on this. The Eastern half was far more consolidated and prosperous than you explain and it was the plague that largely caused disunity and fragmentation in the 6th century in the east. Italy had long become self serving and the rich areas had been either had goths oust the local elite or were left alone and happy on their self sufficient estates. The later didn't care for Roman return as it meant more taxes and oversight whereas Theodoric had to cosplay as a Roman just to keep things running smoothly and reduce risk of invasion/over throw. The Gothic counter attacks is really what ruined Italy. The idea of Roman Culture would shift around the Empire and the west was incredibly German by the time it fell. The Eastern Latins didn't "die". They stopped using Latin as it was a waste of time. Why be bilingual when there was now only 1 court and it spoke Greek. This was purely an efficiency based decision. Disintegration in the East began with the plague but really came with the Arab expansion which you mention here. Still Constantinople not being an ancient continuation at this point is confusing
@rockstar450 No, the previous guy's right. To see a red coloured map and assume that's "Roman" by design is wrong. Rome was an Italic empire, meaning that the Domina Provinciarum of Italy had colonial provinces, with less privileges. The Eastern Roman Empire was the colonial legacy of Roman civic influence over Greek leadership and their colonial armies.
An empire is by definition not a national kingdom, but a colonial project over other people. When Italy lost its empire, it meant that Rome ended. You can empirically see that in the devastation the Greek-led armies did on Italian soil: they wouldn't have done it if that was their homeland, which was not.
I forgot it's not even a Hollywood movie and I was at the edge of my seat waiting for what's going to happen next. The team that created this is truly epic! Props to the voice over guy.
most if not ALL the moving CGI (special visual effects created using computer software) are from video games like Rome: Total War, Medieval II Total War and other video games in that genre.
this you tube channel didn't create the moving CGI in this video they just played the video game with the right units/locations referring to the video and record it, there you go.
Belasarus: โI wonโt accept any new emperor other than Justinianโ
Justinians wife: โThis must be treason!!โ ๐ฑ
Seriously! Women stirring up drama since the beginning of history
Remember the background,this can mean that they are loyal,but it can also means that they will not accept any successor in Constantinople,now tell,what do you make of a general who refuse to accept an emperor?You will think they wants to make themselves emperor,especially now that you know they secretly met.
Since Justinian was childless, she could want to become empress should her husband die before her.
Belisarius said that he would not take up a crown while Justinian lived, and since Justinian was looking like he was going to die to the plague I'd be careful with him aswell.
Justinian wife supported Belisarius.
I absolutely loved this series, and am so glad that they have now been combined into one complete episode. Thank you very much for your great historical documentaries.
Keep up the great work!
These are some of the best history videos I've seen and I watch LOADS of them.
Belisarius is a legend, he should be more well known, he is up there with Ceasar, Pompey, Napoleon and me on Total War!
Belisarius managed to live an abnormally long life. He pops up here and there through history, but it's his achievements in the 41st Millennium that are his true crowning moments.
For the Emperor.
Oh yes i got these vibes too.. we need some Bucellaris-Chapters.
Not really abnormally long. The life expectancy was low due to infant mortality, but adults all lived long lives.
โ@Mani Search Belisarius Cawl
His work on the Primaris Project has some potentiallyโฆinteresting results should the rumor that some of them come from Traitor and Lost Legion geneseed stock prove true.
Belisarius have some mistakes at first, but man this general is easily one of the best in history. He won battles with armies much more smaller, poor eqquiped and with few supplies. He is a masterpiece commander and understand the mind of humans and leaders like no one else and not only that his diplomacy skills are top notch. First avoiding war with persians and second saving Rome, thank God. He has all qualities from the mos maiorum and deserve be called the last roman. Also the epic history have one of the greatest documentaries I ever seen, your team is unmatch and would make all this generals and kings happy for portraying their lives pretty well.
No doubt and I think that's why this makes him easily one of the greatest generals of all time and arguably the greatest Roman general of all time with so little men, support and supplies had he been given 50,000 to 100,000 troops there's no telling what he could have accomplished, belisarius was the Hannibal of Eastern Roman empire.
@R D F Hannibal has debatable historical merit. Most of what can actually be confirmed were losses and mistakes. Romans had a tendency to "talk up" the enemies they vanquished to make them seem better in beating them.
@R D F Scipio Africanus and Julius Caesar are both clear. Iโd also say Constantine the Great is debatably better. But Iโd have Belasarius as a top five Roman General.
@Archives of Fantasy I doubt Constantine would make top five sense both trajan and aurelion I think that's how you spell there names would be in that discussion and maybe even dramaticus, the reason I put belisarius in that top five if not top three is he didn't have anywhere near the capability of the past legions let alone the discipline and experience that the other legendary Roman generals had with their soldiers, on top of the insubordination that he dealt with they would not have tolerated it, they would have executed those that disobeyed them immediately, and in spite of all that and a incompetent and jealous emperor, belisarius still managed to accomplish The impossible with so little.
@R D F Constantine the Great never lost a battle and he took on many Roman armies that outnumbered his own.
History lesson on an academic level of quality in every aspect, even details, I have never seen before.
This is by far the best content I have ever seen. Absolutely brilliant.
Many thanks!
The reign of Justinian sometimes feels like a dream, between the fall of the west and the arab invasions there was this brief moment where it seemed the empire is great again at its full might. But shortly after we're reminded that Rome is still falling and unable to cling on to a gone geopolitical status quo
Please do more videos about Eastern Rome. It has a wonderful history, with its ups and downs. Unfortunately the negative aspects are mostly known.
exactly
I'd like to see more late roman and sasanian wars
I'm surprised there isn't some kind of people's choice awards for content creators because these guys definitely deserve some type of recognition for absolutely superb content like this in my humble opinion.
you're absolutely right, like an Oscars for content creators
This series was one of the very best documentaries I have ever seen. I especially love the quotes. I will never forget that moment when the captive Gelimer says "Vaniny of vanities, all is vanity", with that gorgeous art and wonderful narration.
I agree, there's something really powerful about it. The music helps a lot too.
Belisarius was the General that Justinian didnโt deserved. So well-narrated. A feat in itself. Fascinating series..
Your guys' animation plus the Total War footage is perfect for presenting this history. It's always extremely easy to follow the narritive, keep track of who's who, and to understand the battlefield tactics. Fantastic work, and thanks.
โ@Epictvgiveaways Lol. Obvious scam attempt.
Been waiting for this since the second episode 6 ended. So happy! Thank yall for all the hard work yall put into this :3
Belisarius was the General that Justinian didnโt deserved
@B BG he was just loyal. And remember, even if you kick a dog he we still protect you cause you are the most important thing to him.
You got that right.
Wait till you hear about Flavius Stilicho
mf got killed for being too good at his job
@lazy guy yeah lol
So well-narrated. A feat in itself. Fascinating series.
This was so well done. Incredibly insightful. I have studied and am fairly well versed from 753 BC through Vespasian. So it is nice to learn about the later years after Rome fell. Another masterpiece from Epic History TV! Canโt wait for whatโs next!
There's a whole podcast of the east empire after the west fell I wanna watch it so much but it's kinda confusing the page and the ads are killer. Wish someone would upload them on here like they did with Mike Duncan's
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What an amazing job you guys have done with these videos, they are better then most documentaries made by production companies this millions of dollars. A wonderful thing to spend 2 hours doing fantastic work really.
This is outstanding. It had me on the edge of my seat. A movie should be made about general Belisarius. This puts the rest the myth that the Roman empire fell in 476. I am highly impressed with this, because I have been a fan of the eastern Roman empire since I was a kid
Last link to the Eastern Roman empire was actually Rurics in Russia and CZech kings on the Mother side trough Saxony and Sicily blood line ...Premysl Otakar was very dark ..I just learned trough Covid lock down...I was bored and find out painting of him showing him dark skin so I start to be curious. And I did lot of location research etc. it actually started to look for my family origins ...and we had some rumor about our Spain origin by DNA it was possible and then I went over crusades , princes Orosia saint in Spain come from CZech rep. ,but this was not related geographically so most likely my ancestors were stone or brick workers and engineers to build a castle or decorate interiors make furniture for king up to Italian standards ....and my father was tile installer free lancer and I have construction company isn't fascinating to see the similarity on the father side almost like destiny ...so I find villages in the region called Krivoklat where we so post to come on one of my father branches and there was a castle with same name build and in this time period it becomes a residence of King so it went trough lot of construction upgrades ....it was area owned only by King not even Church could have own there land only church here and there and perhaps monastery ...strictly kings unoccupied land and many villages had a name very close to black color ,,, so there were hundreds of servants come with the Saxony princes but they were mostly Sicilians I guess... so the entire story goes trough princess of Sicily marriage to Saxony and her Daughter married King of Bohemian empire and her grandmother was a daughter of Byzantine king ... So that explain why the Bohemian kings inherited title Roman empire........it suddenly makes perfect sense ...afterwards all Royal families fabricated links to Byzantine Empire ...
Belisarius has got to be the busiest General in history ๐ณ
The man was a worker. Justinian was very lucky to have the talented staff that he did. He was loyal to his emperor I just wish Justinian could have been as trusting as Augustus was with Agrippa.
@slicks87 For that point in time, we were lucky Justinian trusted Belisarius at all.
@TiringSarcasm correct, just the amount of times the men revolted, a subordinate decided they were better and Narses in the wings. It was such a different atmosphere than Julius Caesar's times.
@slicks87 Caesar dealt with numerous mutinies and insubordination
Aurelian also got pretty busy lol
This is amazing I loved all the visuals and the total war scenes really added to the scope of the battles. Thank you for telling us this fantastic story of the last Roman.
This couldnโt be more epic. Procopious would be proud.
*Throws the Secret History at your head*
Extremely clear account of the campaigns of Belisarius. The use of salient map features linked directly to the text gives an overall understanding that is lacking in other presentations. Keep up the good work
Ten minutes into the video, I bought the first six books of History of the Wars. Thanks for the inspiration!
And learn who the Illyrians are first before reading ! ๐ฆ๐ฑ
@Storm Rider some balkan tribes who have almost nothing to do with the albaians even though the albanians would really love to?
@PATHOLOGIKOS MISHTHS VARDOU Belisarius was illyrian just like Justinian
Really enjoyed watching these as they came out, I had always wanted to watch a series like this on the reconquest and so was insanely happy when you suddenly started the video series. Thanks a lot, will be recommending this full version to people!
Totila is a very interesting and impressive figure and antagonist to Belasarius.
When Totila invaded Italy his 5000 Goths beat the Roman force of 12,000, scattering them in chaos according to the historian Bradly.
Much of the following anecdotes are from Pricopious
Being a devout Aryan Christian he was big on justice and mercy, and Pricipious often points out the irony of the โbarbariansโ being more civilised than the Romans at times. During sieges the Goths offered the Romans 3 months truce to hold out for reinforcements, this bluff worked and the massive perceived confidence of the Goths made the starving Romans surrender.
Totila immediately made a small ration for the starving populace, knowing if the starving were given plenty they would die, slowly he increased their daily allowance of food and nursed the populace back to health, with acts of outrage by his men being punished with death.
Further still, the Roman commander Conan, was allowed to sale to any port they preferred with his defeated garrison. The wind made sailing to their preferred destination (Rome) impossible, forced to stay the goths opened up the markets to the Romans and treated them as equals until it was possible for them to sail, eventually Totila provided the Romans with horses, supplies AND an escort and allowed them to escape by land.
In the Gothic retaking of Rome, 400 Romans held out in the tomb of Hadrian, the goths opted to starve them out, rather than starve the 400 Romans charged in an effort to die in glory, to their shock the goths offered them surrender, and then offered to either repatriate them to Constantinople or allowed them to join his own armies.
Totila believed in keeping justice on his side to keep the favour of God, thus treating the populace with decency and care, and showing mercy to his enemies.
Pricipious accounts several times with eloquent frustration at the contrast with the behaviour of the โbarbariansโ vs the civilised Romans.
Eastern Rome began to buy off huge mercenary forces to supplement their armies, many of whom were gothic tribes, thus when the Roman army under Narcies met Totila in his final battle, the goths were โterribly down castโ
He met his death after showing off infront of his outnumbered army throwing up and catching his Lance and dressed in golden armour and purple robes, when the goths could not beat the huge Roman force totila tried to escape with a few guards, a Gepid war chief hired by the Romans charged Totila in the dark apparently not knowing who he was, a gothic guard is stated to have exclaimed โdog, would you kill your own master!?โ Then realising who the target was Totila was charged down and killed.
Even after this decisive defeat, the Goths chose a new king, Teia, who in a final battle against the Romans is described by Pricopious โ having being betrayed their horses starving, the goths suddenly rushed on foot upon the astonished Romans the battle that then ensued was terrible, not one of Homers heroโs ever performed greater miracles of valour than did Teia on that dayโ He fell when his shield was heavy with 12 spears, when his armour bearer was changing his shield he was pierced in the chest and killed, the Romans paraded his head on a pike, โyet the goths still fought on until darkness, then the next day renewed the struggle until darkness again compelled them to pauseโ and the 3rd they sent envoys to Narcies to seek peace, their โtermsโ were that they go free on the condition they would never again take up arms against the Romans, on condition they were allowed an unmolested passage out of Italy AND receiving money for the expenses. โThey had such terrible experience at the desperate valour of the goths that they felt compelled to accept the conditionsโ
The Goths were finally driven out of Italy.
Yeah. He is an interesting character and Procopius seems to have had a liking for him. Procopius records the following incident about Totila:
*When it was already day and there was now no suspicion left of any ambush, Totila, for his part, went to the church of the Apostle Peter to pray, but the Goths began to slay those who fell in their way. And in this manner there perished among the soldiers twentyโsix, and among the people sixty. And when Totila had come into the sanctuary, Pope Pelagius came before him carrying the Christian scriptures in his hand, and, making supplication in every manner possible, said "Spare thine own, O Master." And Totila, mocking him with a haughty air of indifference, said "Now at last, Pelagius, you have come to make yourself a suppliant before me." "Yes" replied Pelagius, "at a time when God has made me your slave. Nay, spare your slaves, O Master, from now on." And Totila received this supplication with favour and forbade the Goths thereafter to kill any Roman at all, but he permitted them, while setting aside for him the most valuable of the property, to have unrestricted authority to plunder all the rest for themselves.*
Tortilla was indeed a fine leader and a worthy adversary to the biscuit eaters.
You know a documentary is good when instead of falling asleep it keeps you on your seat watching every single detail! This is amazing work! Thanks!!!
This was absolutely incredible. This is one of the best documentaries Iโve ever had the fortune of viewing ( professionally done or otherwise ).
This production is outstanding! Bravo to the Epic History team! This video exudes the highest quality and enough good things can't be said. Keep it up!
This is my favorite series YALL have done. Educated me on a part of Byzantine history I didnโt know much about. And pains me that when famous generals are brought up belasarius I never spoken about
This has been a fantastic series so far and I have kept watching it over and over again! Can you mabye do a series on the forgotten African Empires?
Congratulations for your channel, I am learning a lot of history and military tactics. The recreation battles are amazing, I hope you continue doing this!!
This channel, and all its content are unmatched by anything the " History " channel could have ever produced.
thank you Epic History TV for such amazing historical videos.
This series is probably the best historical series Iโve seen, and Iโve seen countless
This channel should be compulsory in history classes. So much more entertaining (and factual obviously) than most of the documentaries put out there.
Great narrator too
This is a history you just don't hear much about. Of course many of the history videos are on the rise and glory of the Roman Empire of old. But this history is just as fascinating and full of great men as any period of Roman history. What an epic story. A+++
absolutely love that they used Total War: Attila for this! Not a perfect total war by any stretch of the imagination but it has a special place in my gamer heart forever.
yeah its such a good game. If it didn't have performance issues I bet it would be remembered as one of the best.
not just a great grand campaign, but some of the best dlc campaigns in total war too.
Procopius' take on the emperor's greed and that all his decisions were inspired highly by personal ambition could be true it never once felt like he wanted to consolidate whatever territory Belisarius captured and always seemed like he wanted an excuse for war.
It took another 10 years to consolidate Africa. After that, it was a secure and prosperous province. It similarly happened in Italy. For instance, once Italy was finally secured, rebuilding efforts began. Then the Franks and Burgundians invaded and the Byzantines crushed them. Justinian spent fortunes trying to consolidate and secure Italy. The Lombard invasion happened after he died.
This is fantastic, I studied history in university and always really focused on late antiquity. This documentary is what the history channel should put out. The period of Justinian and the man has so much going on it reminds me of Augustus and his cadre of very capable men. I always saw parallels between Agrippa and Belisarius.
Wow I have only gotten halfway through this video and am amazed at how well put together and how much knowledge has been shared.
I love history but this is the first time I'm learning about Rome after the vandals and goths. This is a great video man! Thank you so much.
Thank you once again for another great series. This channel is highly suggested when you're interested in history. Keep up the good work and thank you again๐
Belisarius deserves to be remembered, what a incredible story of his. man Iโm happy for procopius documenting all of this.
In a further comment; the movement of the siege Towers of Goths when they were trying to re-conquer Rome, remind me of the Lord of the Rings. Belisarius is like Aragorn. Once again thank you so very much for producing this. This is outstanding
Keep up the good work epic history tv, as an anthropologist in the making, i am having an absolute blast watching your content , amazing stuff really! ๐๐ป๐๐ป
Excellent!!!! This has to be one of the best, most thorough historical documentaries about Rome, specifically the Eastern Empire I've ever heard!
Just had the book Count Belisarius by Robert Graves for my wedding anniversary so this video was a great recommendation. Great video helps provides information that will add to my understanding and enjoy of the book. Great video thanks for all your hard work, halfway through this, have subscribed and upvoted.
It's a great book!
Just be careful to distinguish Graves fictive episodes from those actually recorded.
@paprskomet I will, after reading I Claudius and Claudius the God, I read a few history books on Rome will do the same with Bizantium any recommendations?
@Joz 66 Procopius History of the Wars, the main source of this series as well.
@Epic History TV Why do u refuse to make ww2 videos you would be so rich and I will be so happy I donโt get it
Man every documentary this channel has made is just amazing! I can't believe we get to have such great free content!
Please keep doing these! Justinian The GREAT and Belisarius The BOSS were one of the greatest 1-2 sock tandems in history. Thank you for this!
I had a lovely evening watching this documentary!
My deepest thanks and respect for the hard work for those involved. Please keep up the good work!
My god. I watched that fully with no interruptions with amazement and lose of words. This was one of the most insightful, detailed story telling video I've seen. This is why Epic historys is one of my all time top youtube channels. Thank you very much for all those involved in this.
The opening gave me chills - so many fought and died for the Roman Idea - I would've too if I was there.
What a story to live, so much accomplished Belisarius got done but unfortunately it seems in vain after he and Justinian passed.
Justinian is doubtless Top 5 Roman Emperor, including Western and Eastern halves. Administration, reforms, organising new provinces so they held despite the empire being crippled by plague while under attack. Religious and legal reform which was widely adopted. Unquestionably one of the greatest
Yes, he does not get enough credit....instead said Julius Caesar gets all the historical recognition but Caesar operated when Rome was an uncontested major power, unlike Justinian's Rome.
@Al Als Yeah but unlike caesar, he drained the empire into bankruptcy, paranoid against his own generals, and his ambition which permanently deatroyed rome.
He oversaw the re conquest of some of the western empire aswell as the old heartlands of Italy but it weakened the empire and contributed towards it loosing Egypt, Syria etc during the early Islamic conquests. Would have been better served by holding onto what he had IMO.
He couldn't have done any of it without a few key players though.
Thank you, this series are incredible! It's an absolute masterpiece!
''Give me a Empire of Humble Origins! Give me a Hero of Law and Order!...Give us The Roman Empire!''
I never put much interest into the late roman empire but after having seen this documentary which is absolutely superb by the way i have become super invested and belisarius has become my favourite figure from antiquity. Kudos to you for this content, i cant give enough praise.
To the Epic History team, many thanks for creating such high quality content, informative and critically evaluated and yet absorbing for the audience. The likes of Hollywood c an take a lesson from you. Look forward to more history lessons on Europe and the Middle- East!
I can't believe how awesome this docu-series is. I've watched it many times and never get sick of it.
I canโt think of another channel thatโs never had a single bad episode. Amazing stuff as ever guys!
Any chance - any at all - those of us who fell in love with you through your Napoleonic series that we might see a chapter on his Egyptian campaign?
Yes no maybe?
They'll do it when they finish with Napoleon's campaign in Italy.
Wow. What great history this is. This channel needs to live on forever in history as well.
What a fantastic documentary! I found it riveting at every turn. Thank you so much! Can't wait to share this with my kids.
Thank you so much for all this history!!! I greatly appreciate all of it. It was very educational to say the least and i never new about General belirius until now. Probably the BEST GENERAL EVER in all of HISTORY...
Es increible el trabajo que han hecho para hablar de rste personaje de una forma tan epica, muchas gracias, espero que algun dia esta historia este en el canal de espaรฑol.
Thanks for the excellent presentation of Belisarius' career. It gives a good overall background to my board wargaming (in particular GMT's Commands & Colors Medieval, which series starts with some of Belisarius' battles).
this is undoubtedly the most exciting and best series Epic History - God damn!
I get goosebumps when i watch your Justinian war series
Absolutely amazing accomplishment. So well narrated and illustrated.
Love that you guys used Total War gameplay footage for this! My favorite strategy game!
This brilliant piece of work had me on the edge of my seat more so than most movies.
Amazingly well done history of Belisarius', these are always highly informative and entertaining. Thank you so much for your great work.
Honestly an epic history drama following Belisarius' life would be endlessly entertaining. From the middle east, to northern Africa, to re-conquering Rome itself. It would almost seem audiences would react with a "Yeah, this guy is just too good, I wish there was real history in movies and shows."
Very well done production, both captivating and engaging, well worth watching. Smart simple graphics makes it an easy to understand history of almost infinite complexities.
What an amazing story. Thank you Epic History TV for making this.
One of the greatest generals in eastern Roman history, one of the most elite generals in all of Roman history. Legendary Magister Militum, Ultimus Romanorum...
Great production here, thank you.
What astonished me is to see the population changes of the world from the time of the great Roman legions with armies of 70-80,000 during the time of the Cesarโs to Justinian era and armies in just a few thousands. Sending an army of just 2500 to take back Italy astonishes me.
This series kept 2.15 hours to see it !! Thank you. Great piece of history and research work .
what an incredible historical characterโฆ i cant believe i knew so little about him before
Belisarius is one of my general in the game and glad to watch a documentary like this so organzed and detailed
Impressive work, so entertaining and interesting about the life of a military genius very few know about. Thank you!
Belisarius is one of the greatest leaders in human history! God bless his soul๐
The quality of your videos is unsurpassed. I have never been more enraptured by history documentaries than this. Thank you for this perfection of didactic entertainment and I truly wish you never stop creating.
An epic movie about Belisarius and this period of heroic restoration of the Roman empire would be outstanding!
Absolutely fantastic, thanks for bring alive a general from antiquity who I had little knowledge of
In love with primer a wonderful work of epic historical significance.
Thank you!
No idea if anyone of the Epic History TV still reads this, but i absolutely love the visual presentation. Stunning work!
I'm going to honor Belisarius, by playing Total War: Attila and declaring independence from Justinian and reform Western Roman Empire!
Amen
Thatโs a tough one. Let us know how it turns out.
How did it turn out ?
Ave caesar
I watched this the same way you would watch a movie... becoming more and more engrossed as the story unfolded. Really this is a brilliant presentation. ; ]
Love it . There isn't much on YT to sate my appetite for material concerning the Eastern Roman Empire, so thanks to all involved!
What an excellent channel this is for history buffs like me!...
By far one of my most favourite miniseries ever, absolute quality.
Dude this man had infinite patience for all the stupid people who didnโt listen to him. What a nightmare. Imagine what he could have done if he wasnโt surrounded by idiots.
He doesnโt have a perfect record, but he seriously did way better than he had any right to do. With limited troops and money and ineffective/disloyal sub-commanders.
I often think of him alongside Agrippa as two capable generals who held the empire up, while lesser men would have torn it down in a civil war
Wow, I learned more from this channel in an 2 hour video than I learned in multiple years of different school history classes lol
Best history channel on youtube, absolutely fantastic!
The roman stand against the goths at the gates of Rome where truly a last stand of the romans in general.
The eternal city was defended by its greatest of sons. Truly movie worthy
Just watched this glued to my seat... the use of Total War Attila clips is just so good to enhance the time period wars... huge well done... looking for more on your channel for sure... thanks!!!