Episode 304 - Questions XIV

[@rkurtz4]

Love this channel

[@parigas]

Nice one

[@Uzair_Of_Babylon465]

Great video keep it up you're doing amazing things also have you heard of the hadith/story about byzantine emperor Heraclius believing that prophet Muhammad was a prophet

[@Ian-yd9tl]

He covered that story during his rise of islam episodes a few years back

[@hermonymusofsparta]

The Byzantines were called Greeks by every one of their neighbors except for the Arab states. They only ever said "We are Romans, not Greek" in the context of *answering the Latins* who denied the Romanness of the Byzantine state. The Rus, Georgians, Armenians, Bulgars, Slavs etc. all referred to the Byzantines as Greeks and never received the push back from the Byzantines that the Latins did. There was no "rebranding as Greeks". They referred to themselves as Greeks throughout the Byzantine period, though the term Roman was predominate. Scholeion History has two very well researched videos on this topic I would recommend. Professor Kaldellis' thesis on Byzantine identity is controversial because it is not without its problems, and it is not as rock solid a position as is discussed in the answer to the last question.