The Second Iconoclasm: Leo V and Michael II | Byzantine History

[@paulsimpson9282]

Speaking of icons... welcome back!

[@Serapeum]

:) One of my New Year's Resolutions is to consistently upload two videos each month, so hopefully you'll be seeing me some more in 2023.

[@charlienelson737]

It really is crazy how the romans just defaulted to fighting amongst themselves at every opportunity.

[@Serapeum]

Their own worst enemy...

[@spectralrat9300]

They really are sons of mars (jk)

[@عليياسر-ذ5ب]

​@@spectralrat9300 You mean the Middle East and the Canaanites

[@Mofifty31]

Gotta practice

[@Ennio444]

Ain't this true for everyone without a clear, survival-challenging obstacle ahead? Almost as if Humanity was programmed to fight for survive and strive in conflict, instead of sharing the fruits of prosperity in peace... Not that I like or endorse this, but we do have a tragic tendency to self sabotage our own prosperity.

[@EasternRomanHistory]

Very good, I intend to do a video on Leo myself in the future, now I know the standard to try and beat.

[@swoo5062]

It’s always a pleasure when Serapeum uploads. I am glad that these period of Byzantine history is being uploaded with such detail

[@creationsxl2979]

So sad you are this criminally underrated, I’m a very new subscriber (maybe a week ago or so) but have steamrolled through everything you’ve put out. Never had heard of Eumenes before, and I know a bit about the Diadochi. So seriously thankful for everything you’ve taught me and continue to teach me all around history. Haven’t even started this vid yet either keen.

[@ironduke3780]

I really liked the video, it was incredibly informative.The Amorians tend to be sidelined because there aren't that many sources about them. Keep it up!

[@Serapeum]

Glad you liked it! The next few videos will be following Theophilos and Michael III, so there's more Amorian content to come!

[@ironduke3780]

@@Serapeum I am looking forward to it 👍

[@IMPCIVLIVSCAESARDIVVS]

@serapeumhistoria I wanted to study up for my new CK3 East Roman Campaign with the new Roads to Power Dlc and you channel is amazing. I'm blown away at the qaulity. Great job.

[@StoicHistorian]

keep it going, always happy when I see you upload

[@StoicHistorian]

@bastiat the original ones yes absolutely, but a lot of people in classical rome could be considered stoic just not as a philosopher of the practice. Who is your favorite stoic philosopher?

[@jameskulp3624]

These are the best in depth videos of Byzantine history I have ever seen! Thanks for the great content!

[@monetizedyay6827]

Between the HRE and Byzantium, who do you think had more deadly internal strife that were a result of religious disputes?

[@Serapeum]

I mean, I would say the HRE just because the Thirty Years' War led to anywhere from 4.5 to 8 million deaths. Even Byzantium's most brutal civil war wasn't as bad as that.

[@Raul-rb8]

Amazing video❤️

[@xenoboy1213]

Could you elaborate on the note at 9:17? If Leo wasn't Isaurian, why did that become the name of his dynasty?

[@Serapeum]

Well, the dynasty of Leo III and his descendents is traditionally called 'Isaurian', but Leo was not from Isauria, instead his family hailed from Germanicaea in Syria before they were transplanted over to Thrace. So, really, they are Syrian - as such they are also called the 'Syrian' dynasty by scholars and I find that to be a more appropriate name. To the best of my knowledge, they are only called Isaurian at all due to an off-hand comment by a chronicler.

[@xenoboy1213]

@@Serapeum Interesting, thanks for the reply and keep up the great videos man

[@HistoriaeGraecae]

9:22 isn't this the coin of Tiberius III and not Leo III??

[@johnhanifin1952]

This period would make a great game of thrones like tv show or book series

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[@chesthoIe]

What were these swords made out of that they chopped limbs off in combat like this, one stroke?

[@maldegaar]

So I've read that Thomas the Slav is confused with another figure, Thomas the Armenian. Also there's an interesting theory that Leo had a hand in killing Krum, much like Atilla centuries before.

[@susanpower9265]

Being Monday 29 MAY and researching Constantinople/this anniversary of final downfall of THE SACRED CITY OF CONSTANTINE who literally fulfilled OUR LORD WORDS THY KINGDOM COME ON EARTH very glad to discover this new recent series in such detail despite alas being as Antichristian as the late John Julius Norwich who was the first to make this magnificent history known in English

[@Steven-dt5nu]

Iconoclasm is an interesting aspect of Christianity.

[@عليياسر-ذ5ب]

You mean heresy

[@zoeygeorge2403]

​@@عليياسر-ذ5بwho care

[@عليياسر-ذ5ب]

@@zoeygeorge2403 Pictures are forbidden in Islam and Christianity

[@zoeygeorge2403]

@@عليياسر-ذ5ب Islam yeah but there's a few churches in my village and they seem pretty happy with all the Jesus pictures.

[@عليياسر-ذ5ب]

@@zoeygeorge2403 They depict a person from Scandinavia because his skin is very white and yellow hair and Jesus or Joshua is from the Middle East and he looks like the Greeks and Romans and they have olive skin because of the Mediterranean and black hair

[@budwyzer77]

You forgot the part about chaining Michael to an ape before throwing him into a furnace!

[@susanpower-q5q]

Bardanes Tourkos the General makes rebellion against Emperor Nikephorus I but fails Three officers under him eventually kill each other one Thomas the Slav even claims to be Constantine VI supposedly blinded /killed by his mother Michael II hated Thomas the Slav and eventually kills him October 823 Poor Patriarch Nikephorus is deposed by Iconoclast Leo V but Leo comes to gruesome end and is killed by Michael II on Christmas Day 23/30 Another fascinating connection to Emperor Constantine VI whose only surviving daughter Euphrosyne forcibly taken from her nunnery and married to Michael II after death of his first wife 23 /35

[@yvonne963]

Emperor Justinian was an lllyrian/ Dardan/ Albanian, and the Byzantium was an Illyrian Empire! Emperor Constantin was an lllyrian/ Albanian, and the Byzantium was an Illyrian Empire! Komnenians Dinasty was Illyrian/ Albanian! Alexander the Great was Illyrian/Albanian! The history must be rewritten!

[@susanpower-q5q]

Iconoclast Emperor V murdered on Christmas Day 820 AD Christmas Day 2024

[@rickyyacine4818]

Leo 5 was better he was leo 3 true hair if he lasted for long he Michael the slav wouldn't happen also no Sicily lost :(

[@عليياسر-ذ5ب]

No, the Romans like civil wars. Our craftsmen gave Greek fire to the Arabs