The Unspeakable Punishments Of The Byzantine Empire

[@lancecarter1643]

Pretty violent. I wonder what kind of videos games they were playing that influenced them to act that way.

[@activatekruger446]

It all started with pong. Went downhill pretty quickly after that.

[@diegosoares1281]

GTA 500 AC

[@bulu9214]

They played real life violent games not those modern virtual games.

[@vladus8014]

Doom Medieval for sure

[@luciamanalo7837]

@@activatekruger446 :i

[@asinimali]

In the Eastern churches (Orthodox, Armenian, Coptic, Syrian, etc.), priests can marry, but monks and religious hierarchs can't. Married priests have a common connection with their community (must be married before ordination); monks are there to pray and devote themselves to God; hierarchs are there to administer a church and not to create religious dynasties.

[@youknowme1475]

i like how royal families of the past just had no sympathy for their caretakers when they die, they just see it as a oppertunity to reign lol

[@robertbruce7686]

Legs firmly crossed...

[@Procopius464]

This is why, in America, our Founders gave us the Constitution. Once it's thoroughly gone, we should expect all this (and more) to return.

[@codystegemueller9428]

Gaston has seen better days

[@cmacdhon]

There has never been a time, throughout all of history, where humans have not been vile and vicious creatures.

[@vilo8492]

Some humans*

[@lancecarter1643]

And we are all humans. Scary huh.

[@michaelgordon3805]

Maybe when we were hunter gatherers

[@flowrepins6663]

how about budhist?

[@stevenolivas7262]

@@vilo8492 most*

[@Zeruel3]

You forgot an important part of Irene's story, she specifically had her son blinded in the same room where she'd given birth to him over a decade and a half prior

[@nikosgreek352]

@Saying N*igro Makes KZbin Cry Indeed. I read a book about it. Many factions wanted him to lead not only for his politics but also because he was a man. Irene however controlled many of the court intrigues particularly the eunuchs. So she had her son blinded to settle the issue. A blind man cannot lead after all. Not the most loving of families.

[@eldenlord5938]

Gotta love mom eh?

[@dinos9607]

People did not tolerate heresy back then. Not even mothers towards heretic sons. Pretty legit in my books.

[@debbylou5729]

So what?

[@YourBoyJohnny94]

@@dinos9607Icon worshipping is clearly a feminine trait and heresy.

[@pain8117]

Byzantine politicians be like: HAH I GOT YOUR NOSE

[@malcode9155]

"After a long bloody conflict which saw millions die and most of the empire's hinterlands seized by rival powers, Simon emerged victorious, and had the defeated Constantine blinded, skinned alive, dismembered, cooked, and served to a Bulgarian swineherd, in what was regarded as an unusually lenient punishment by Byzantine standards."

[@zippyparakeet1074]

Simon was the longest reigning Emperor of his dynasty with his reign lasting a total of 45 minutes.

[@adalbertocarmona6056]

Legend

[@histguy101]

That would definitely be seen as unusually barbaric by the Byzantines if it had happened

[@papahairy5315]

@@histguy101 🤓🤓🤓

[@brk932]

@@histguy101 What blinding 15,000 men ...is hunky dory?! MIND YOU ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN MEN DEFENDING THEIR HOMES! The Byzantines are only second to the Mongols to the amount of evil, treacherous, deviousness.

[@e.astleford3492]

Castration is also the reason that the African slave trade into Arabia was continual but not generational.

[@ruadhagainagaidheal9398]

Not “A castrati”. Castrati is the plural. The word you wanted was Castrato.

[@LeeRaldar]

I thought Castrato were pre-adolescent boys who from the 16th century onward were castrated so as to their voices would not break and they could follow a career into adulthood as choral singers. Eventually the practice was made illegal and the last one named Alessandro Moreschi died in 1922 aged 64. Recordings of his voice are available on You Tube.

[@aresjerry]

Nice grammar and punctuation 👍🏻

[@frederikspudnik1792]

Molto bene.

[@ficialintelligence1869]

Oy veh!

[@ForageGardener]

@@LeeRaldar not all thoughts are accurate

[@louisazraels7072]

It always makes me laugh when people say the world is so violent today, clearly they didn't study history.

[@randomcenturion7264]

😆 True. “Oh the worlds so terrible today? Be lucky you’ve still got your nose and balls”

[@lubex3486]

Today is the most peaceful world etc, Lol Remember 1920s when dogs had more values than women??

[@lubex3486]

if i had a time machine i would have dropped them at a zone where Mongols were about to slaughter 1 million......😂

[@chrismckimmey2582]

More people were murdered in the 20th century than all of periods of time combined

[@louisazraels7072]

@@chrismckimmey2582 gotta think in proportions

[@sophiaisabelle01]

Ancient punishments are deeply traumatizing to the core. Seems like people back then were far more malicious than we could've ever imagined them to be.

[@CVsnaredevil]

People are still this bad unfortunately. Look up how Mexicans Cartels torture, execute people and dispose of the bodies. Or how the Taliban punishes and executes people. Or how the CIA tortures people. Humans still act like sadistic psychopaths.

[@rippedtorn2310]

How do you think our rulers came to be our rulers anyway ?

[@thedicktator40]

Law and order

[@3PercentNeanderhal]

In certain parts of Africa and the Middle East some of these brutal punishments carry on to this day. Some have added a modern twist with neck wrapped detonation cord and tank treads.

[@Someone-by6jm]

Nah,your too soft

[@sc6658]

Justinian II is an underrated Byzantine story. Like he was not a good emperor, but the man certainly had style and I think more people should base their fantasy villains off him.

[@aldosigmann419]

I'm not sure which 'Justinian' it was but i like the one who dealt with some ridiculous rioters (some 20 - 30,000 of 'em..) by inviting them to 'negotiate' at the hippodrome then locking 'em in - then gettin' out the swords! A real boss !

[@fristlyextras5002]

@@aldosigmann419 Thats the original one

[@jkelsey555]

I love how when his ship was in a storm after he escaped exile, someone with him asked him to promise God he would spare his enemies if God calmed the storm. Justinian II replied "If I spare a single one of them, may God drown me now" Man was DONE with traitors

[@Michael-bn1oi]

​@@aldosigmann419 yeah, that's the first one and while he was an excellent emperor it's insane to consider that among his good achievements.

[@aldosigmann419]

@@Michael-bn1oi Don’t feel bad if you don’t get it skippy - it usually eludes the bottom 10th percentile.

[@Neos0en]

The videogames of that time are the culprits

[@hunterterrat9105]

Truuu

[@techpriest4787]

Take away their guns too.

[@ClosureMW2]

Banger

[@TetsuShima]

Constantine VI: "WHY THE HELL DID YOU BLIND ME?!" Irene: "Because where you are going, you won't find anything worth seeing..."

[@GeraltofRivia22]

Based af

[@TagmatonDomestikon]

The Roman Empire did not split into two empires. They just established an Augustus to govern the western provinces and an Augustus to govern the eastern provinces. It was still one empire and the emperor's could operate in each other's sphere with full imperium. It didn't become two different countries like most people seem to think.

[@nikolamilosevski6424]

You are right.

[@hunterterrat9105]

The western empire eventually fell ofcourse. Byzantium was alone for quite a long time

[@evanrogers1825]

I mean, you’re right but it’s kind of like a couple that lives apart for years. They may have never made the divorce final but they are single in every capacity unofficially.

[@TagmatonDomestikon]

@@evanrogers1825 no, that's untrue. They didn't act as two distinct entities. Things like currency, laws and citizenship remained standard across the empire. Legions, artisans, tradesmen and engineers moved around between east and west. It still operated as one entity. With the exception of tax revenues which were held in two treasuries. Obviously the east had 2/3 of the population and tax revenues so it became the richer half. Latin was still the official language of military and civil administration in the east until Heraclius in the 7th century when Greek replaced Latin for governance. Greek was mostly the common language used for business and later the defacto liturgical language.

[@kakyoin9688]

@@TagmatonDomestikon same nation but two different states

[@Godzilla00X]

"I shall grant you this mercy and not destroy your soul, take his eyes and hands. You can thank me later citizen, others may not have been so forgiving of your crimes"

[@youngknowledgeseeker]

Reminds me of how Joe Rogan says chimpanzees go for the hands and eyes as well

[@Marshal_Rock]

...and later add: "don't do it again!"

[@dimitriofthedon3917]

Even as emperor he didn't have a right to condem someone's soul even he knew he wasn't God

[@publiopaolacci495]

@@dimitriofthedon3917 the emperor is supposedly the regent of god on earth

[@dimitriofthedon3917]

@@publiopaolacci495 doesn't mean he's God

[@chengizkhan8741]

Well looks like human rights took a back seat in the ancient /medieval times, while Satan trembled in a corner ..

[@TV-oj8uh]

For sure we are doing much better now...

[@RadTradX]

62 million children have been killed since roe v wade. That is much worse that anything that has ever happened

[@scythian7756]

@@TV-oj8uh no we aren’t it’s jus not done publicly anymore still Happens tho.

[@hunterterrat9105]

@@TV-oj8uh not better. Just different

[@quin2392]

i think we're still the same. our human nature has always been what it is. nothings changed

[@TimSlee1]

People back then be like "I know life is already really difficult for everyone so let's try to make it even worse."

[@royalhero4608]

The relationship between the Byzantine and Bulgarian Empires is quite ironic, considering how much they fought each other but also just how integral the Bulgarians were to defeating the Arab siege of Constantinople in 717 during a peace

[@arcotroll8530]

That was mostly because the Bulgarians knew full well that if Constantinople fell they would be next though...

[@wankawanka3053]

Bulgars knew what was gonna follow

[@dinos9607]

@@arcotroll8530 And the were exact since when Greeks fell to the Venetians and their Frankish coons in 1204, the Bulgarians not only failed to exploit the power vacuum but they them too, along the Greeks (and overall a century earlier than the Greeks of mainland Greece!) fell under the advancing Ottomans. In this SE edge of Europe, things are dictated by Greeks. If Greeks go well, the rest of the peninsula goes well. If Greeks go bad, everyone falls with them. It also explains the colossal complexes of inferiority that Balkan nations have towards Greeks. Colossal.

[@zarni000]

the bulgarians new that the arabs would be worse...way worse

[@AITreeBranches]

Literally, the Byzantine empire was always known as rhe Roman empire. Only in modern and postmodern history is named the Byzantine empire to distinguish between the republi, the empire and the two sides, east and west roman empire.

[@SushiBandit28]

Also the Papacy did everything it could to ensure the “Roman spirit” remained in Rome, not with the Greeks

[@asinimali]

Another thing about blinding the Bulgarians in contrast to just killing them is that they will return home alive and economically unproductive. They were a huge economic drain on their families and on Bulgarian society as a whole as well as massively demoralizing to the entire population, wrecking its ability to wage war for decades.

[@georgytodorov7947]

Four years is hardly decades. But yeah I see your point - he couldn't have known the future and destroying the country's ability to wage war was the final step before finally conquering Bulgaria. Good strategy is good strategy...

[@yoghurtmaster1688]

The empire actually still fought under Ivan vladislav after his death what ever was left of the empire surrendered willingly

[@asinimali]

@@yoghurtmaster1688 Thank you for the new info

[@supernova7848]

There was an episode in Vikings where Ivar used a similar strategy. “ lf l cripple the soldiers but l don’t kill them that will weaken the troops “

[@furtim1]

​@@supernova7848 Our level of care and down right opulence we afford to the handicapped, lazy, and old is a consequence of our lavish wealth - much of it a result of fossil fuels (the planet's 1 billion year energy and materials savings account). When that runs dry, or is forced out of existence by green morons, we will return to the minimal subsistence of the past and will return to the ways that such widespread poverty entails.

[@redline1916]

I'm going to use these punishments on my enemies now, thanks for the tips!

[@janetjohns3957]

No need to. Just hit them on their head with a hammer like the one that struck the Tubular Bells

[@verlax8956]

@@janetjohns3957 that's one way to kill them, but we're looking to torture them or at least i am

[@hunterterrat9105]

Most this video was about eunichs, which like you said was not necessarily a punishment. Sometimes done even willingly

[@joenichols3901]

Yeah China use to have an enormous number of eunuchs specifically to work in government as they didn't have families so they wouldn't be corrupt. In theory

[@randomcenturion7264]

In theory indeed. In practice oh boy were they wrong 😑

[@nelsonx5326]

I eunuched myself with a lobster claw rubber band. The band was tight. I felt no pain. In 4 days my testicles were dead from lack of blood flow, and the sack that contains them rotted and dried up like a condom in the gutter. My testicles simply fell from the sack like snow dropping off a bamboo leaf in the morning sun. I'm just trying to be funny. I love my nuts.

[@praetoriandorn3154]

Yeah like people disfiguring their genitals today.

[@waynebimmel6784]

Often "willingly" by will of the parents, so...meh?

[@megusultracool]

Moderns: how could these ancient people be so brutal! Also moderns: *sends their prisoners to a systemic rape camp*

[@captainamerica6525]

The massacre of the Blues and Greens at the chariot racing coliseum was right up there with some bad assery.

[@randomcenturion7264]

Belisarius wasn’t having any of their bullshit.

[@pinchevulpes]

Ancient hooligans

[@martinnolhaf3151]

they deserved it.

[@davidantoniocamposbarros7528]

Belisarius was just being a good soldier that's all

[@IliyanStoychev]

2:40 this is not a Byzantine Emperor. This painting depicts Bulgarian Tzar Simeon I. He claimed the title of Byzantine Emperor(Basileus) on the basis that the Patriatch of Constantinople crowned him with his own Patriarch diadem, after his victory against the Byzantines in a war.

[@chavax7724]

Do ancient Assyrian punishments next please

[@ItalMiser117]

Ohh shi* 😂

[@caroldowning8243]

Or the punishments under Islamic law.

[@MrKobeFuentes]

@@caroldowning8243 you would be surprised that it is like picnic compared to any non islamic

[@caroldowning8243]

@@MrKobeFuentes are you referring to Sharia? From what read it pretty brutal but what do I know. I still would like to know more about it.

[@moreplease998]

Oh boy. The Assyrians were _hardcore_

[@bootpringle]

Man forgot about Harald Hardrada and his Varangians castrating and blinding a emperor

[@alejandrop.s.3942]

What emperor, please? I can't find information about that.

[@bootpringle]

@@alejandrop.s.3942 Michael V

[@asinimali]

Cutting off the nose was a Persian import and really was only used when the Persians were the Eastern Romans' biggest rival. It wasn't used much past the examples used. Also, my guess, it made noseless rivals less attractive to the Persians to bankroll

[@davidjensen2411]

There is never a need to torture! Kill, or leave be.

[@mattsheezy5469]

Up until very recent history, life was filled with death, suffering, sickness, & misery. This is why religion, & the promise of paradise after death was so powerful. We should all be grateful to be alive during this modern period of comfort.

[@awetistic5295]

I'm very grateful to live today with modern medicine, indoor plumbing and a pretty high standard of living. But there are still atrocities committed by humans and sadly, religion has always been abused to justify cruelty and murder.

[@ДимитърПетев]

A brief note, 2:38 and 8:14, this is Simeon I The Great. He was a Bulgarian ruler and not a Byzantine emperor. Nonetheless, great video.

[@Edtuma]

9:07 imagine having his last name nowadays

[@magnaz26]

I see what you did there👀

[@jonathanwilliams1065]

The idea that an image is holy is the exact opposite of the second commandment

[@amsf1]

There is nothing worse than what humans due to humans. And atrocities have been committed since the dawn of man....

[@xq39]

i think the reason people were so cruel is because people usually didn't live very long anyway, early death was the norm whether from disease war or violence so these punishments were not seen as bad.

[@noided4230]

I think it's because people got sliced up in daily life and everyone was just so used to seeing mangled bodies that they had to make torture a little more spicy

[@ldubt4494]

Not really, in the roman empire once you survived your childhood you would likely reach 60 years. But in the time after the 600s where most of the shown punishments took place, life expectancy dropped off.

[@azaria5419]

These punishments are definitely worse than being stabbed with a sword or shot with an arrow. Whether they're worse than dying of the plague or dysentery is more debatable.

[@alphaomega9236]

The People of the west Roman Empire were speaking Latin the people of the East Roman Empire were speaking Greek

[@richietozier7091]

Byzantine History be like: Emperor Myrízeiklaniá the Ass-Smacker was assassinated by his own guard following the riots that broke out after the Greens victory over the Blues in the latest chariot race. Compassionately, the guards decided to give him a comparatively humane death of surgically removing his organs, saving the vital ones for last"

[@TetsuShima]

Theodora of Kazararia: "Did you get the throne back?" Justinian II: "Yes" Theodora of Khazaria: "What did it cost you?" Justinian II: "My nose..." *Begins to cry* Theodora of Kazaria: "Don't worry, honey. Now, you truly look like a real Emperador... especially to their busts" 😉 Justinian II: 🖕

[@nosnibormailliw5122]

In the game, *Crusader Kings 3* the Byzantine Empire has a specific "succession law" where the Emperor's Heir can't Inherit any of the Emperor's lesser titles upon death if they're blind & a criminal punishment being eye gouging you can imprison your brothers who are a threat to your full Inheritance to the Empire & poke out their eyes removing them from the line of succession. Good times.

[@MondoBeno]

In the old days, was there any society that did not torture people in ways that would make Jeffrey Dahmer queasy?

[@arcotroll8530]

No

[@marthavanderweide1156]

Jewish society: they didn't blind, castrate ect.. .

[@CaesarAugustus.]

"A eunuch could not be emperor because the emperor was the symbol of manhood." Irene: hold my beer 🍺

[@biggibbs4678]

Charlemagne and the pope had something to say about that

[@martinnolhaf3151]

@@biggibbs4678 Pope? You mean Patriarch of Rome.

[@dinos9607]

@@martinnolhaf3151 based!

[@sorkiemernie]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@ronaldmcdonald8303]

What sort of fukin psychopath thought of these punishments? People are just cruel I guess!!!!

[@spirosdoukakis7215]

Evnochides may also mean that an ancestor was a eunuch and necessarily a castrator of men.

[@spirosdoukakis7215]

Additionally, the ending in -είδης (Edis) may also refer to a son for example, Kronedes or Kronidis in the God Zeus son of God Kronos .

[@jeannerogers7085]

Spiros, wait a minute - a eunuch would face an impossible challenge to be anybody's ancestor, no?

[@Redraptor0001]

@@jeannerogers7085 They could off had a child before becoming an Eunuch

[@stefanrothe8622]

@@Redraptor0001 have , not off.

[@stefanrothe8622]

What?!? A castrated who castrated other men? 🤔

[@dinos9607]

It is kind of funny that most concentrate on medieval Greeks (pejoratively, "Byzantines") when talk is on medieval corporal punishment and torture. In reality Medieval Greeks were by far the most tame - afterall Greeks were the most civilized nation on earth back then. The corporal punishments were not an innovation of the Eastern Roman Empire but rather a heritage of the Roman legal system. The law on Emperors was that they had to be in good health and fully membered, which of course ended up in political opponents cutting noses or turning into eunuchs political opponents - this though done to avoid assassinations. The law on punishment of traitors was blinding, which again was super lenient considering what earlier Romans and other cultures did to traitors. The blinding of 15,000 Bulgarian captives was in reality a super-lenient punishment when others would have tortured them for days before letting them die of their wounds or work them to death in some forced labor camp in the East - I am constantly amazed at how every single reference to that act ignores what these Bulgarian raiders had been doing in the previous years invading Greece and raiding even down to south Greece leaving a trail of blood behind. All in all, there was far less violence in the Eastern Roman Empire in comparison to Ancient Greece but none wants to see that just because it is spectacular to refer to Basil the Bulgar-slayer or Justinian II the slit-nose.

[@dimitriofthedon3917]

Icons do have a place In the church! So glad you explained them properly. Oh most orthodox monks wouldn't even think about chopping there man eggs off, it's seen as something that can get you excommunicated

[@randomcenturion7264]

Yeah self mutilation is considered a big pretty big sin in the orthodoxy.

[@dimitriofthedon3917]

@@randomcenturion7264 we had entire split off groups in the 19th century that would chop off there bits and if they were a women there breasts, they were gotten rid of like

[@TheDiudang5127]

God abhors idols. 💀

[@dimitriofthedon3917]

@@TheDiudang5127 true but icons aren't idols

[@randomcenturion7264]

@@TheDiudang5127 Don't let Irene of Athens hear you saying that XD

[@zarni000]

if you really think the middle ages were worse than now in terms of cruelty i'd suggest go to palestine, or syria, or lybia, or afghanistan. these days the cruelty is administered through bombs not directly but it's much bigger scale

[@ChiTownOriginator]

The 150 Bulgars that were separated from the rest still got one eye poked out. Basil let them keep one of their eyes so they could lead the completely blinded back to their homeland.

[@alleyneT]

People were far more cruel in the past

[@SusRing]

In many ways we still are

[@randomcenturion7264]

True. Things have gotten a little better though.

[@stefanrothe8622]

This doesn't mean, they would not Do this if it was still allowed.

[@activatekruger446]

You just haven’t spent enough time on gore sites.

[@DeepfriedNutz]

@@activatekruger446 Cruelty always exists among citizens, on some level. But institutionalised cruelty carried out by authorities in most countries is mild compared to earlier centuries. There are exceptions of course.

[@willdwyer2167]

My Grandpa served in the Byzantine Army, he was a President in it. He was supposed to be tortured but he escaped and had me!

[@projectmic1829]

Πες το στα Ελληνικά μη ντρέπεσαι. έχουμε και Google translate

[@willdwyer2167]

@@projectmic1829 Θα σε νικήσω με το πουλί σου

[@army8212]

Castration was done often with "Oprea Singers." Boys were castrated in Italy before they reached puberty to stop their voices from changing. I believe that it was called "Castrato."

[@marka4891]

And the practice continued long enough that there's actually a recording of a castrato singing.

[@army8212]

@@marka4891 Thank you, I had no idea. But I will look it up.

[@marka4891]

@@army8212 The last of them, so I understand, was named Alessandro Moreschi. He has a Wiki page with audio files. You might start there if you want to know more.

[@Maimonizo]

Am i the only one who thinks having a portrait of the Bulgarian Tzar Simeon I as an example of a Roman Emperor

[@doublep1980]

I'm surprised that nobody has produced a big budget historical drama series, like HBO's ''Rome'' or maybe something like ''Vikings'' or GoT, yet. I mean there was so much crazy shieet going on, during the era of the Byzantine Empire. Invasions from ''barbarians'', civil wars, riots, tons of political scheming, assassinations, successor wars, religious conflicts that spiraled out into full-blown civil wars ( like the whole argument about the religious icons in churches, mentioned in the video), more successor wars, more wars with outside "barbarians'' etc. etc. The whole reign of emperor Justinian alone, for example has enough material for several seasons.

[@KilliK69]

it was am eastern empire, and as such, more foreign to the western world.

[@iwanegerstrom4564]

I've been reading the three volumes of John Julius Norwich 'Byzantium' trilogy. I highly recommend them if you are interested in the Eastern Roman Empire

[@ffwast]

"Oh you don't want to see icons anymore huh?" -Irene of Athens, 797 AD

[@mesut5984]

Not Rhinometos. It's Rhinotmetos (τμητός)

[@Meloncholymadness]

I don't 'nose' about you guys, but I'd rather keep my nose XD

[@levitatingpotato109]

To be fair the byzantine weren't any more brutal than their neighbors, they just had the ability to do it on a greater scale.

[@dinos9607]

Actually they were the least brutal people of their time. You should see what was going on around them at the time. Or compare the earlier Romans who were far more brutal. "Byzanines" (basically we talk of medieval Greeks for the most plus a few peripheral groups used as shock absorbers) saw as their ancestors the ancient Greeks who were not saints either. We tend to forget how brutal were ancient Greeks and it is true that ancient Greek writers were often omitting gruesome details. Medieval writers were a bit more frank in that sense at least.

[@VSLS06]

@@dinos9607Same with modern greeks starting from 1821 when we did many things to turks during the revolution but we were much better than our neighbours

[@Vaille32]

The Romans used male donkeys to… uhhh… umm… use your imagination… captives to death.

[@NutsforBrainsLOL]

Game of throne left the chat, 🙄

[@adambarys3190]

Just dont act like 13% of the population and you're safe

[@TheCoolmaster131]

What do you mean by that...

[@adambarys3190]

@@TheCoolmaster131 check 13/64

[@Eppu_Paranormaali]

Calling the Empire "Byzantine" would've probably led you to be rhinotomized.

[@martinnolhaf3151]

and with every right.

[@juanpablorapalino4417]

Real shit hahaha.

[@billkillernic]

No it split to Byzantium and the roman empire SOMETIMES called Eastern and western roman empire. And the split happened because Constantine FOUGHT THE ROMANS lol

[@ivanc9231]

Love these vids this is truly history unmaked stuff enough with romanticized history ,its always been brutal bloody and violent all in the name of peace love and faith😊

[@skorpion1117]

This could easily be one of those AI generated history channels

[@Sm0kerza]

Love the channel, but one of the figures that you used to talk about Byzantine empire and emperors is that of the Bulgarian Tsar Simeon the Great. He was indeed educated in Constantinople, but that is sort of where the connection ends. He spent majority of his rule in battle with the empire

[@cliffnelson1174]

Well this looks like a topic to be talked about around the Thanksgiving Table.....

[@mwillblade]

We humans as a whole are God's cruelest creation.

[@thessalonician]

3:43 Rhinometos means nothing I'm afraid (actually it means nose in classical Greek and nose in Modern Greek = nosenose). The correct word is RhinoTmetos (slit-nosed). 9:04 Orthodox Priests can be married ONLY if they were married before becoming priests. Otherwise marriage is not allowed. Bishops are not allowed to be married at all. Also, to become a priest you can't be an eunuch. 11:51 As a Greek I confirm that Basil the II is not a hero in Greece.. I've never heard of that! We've so many other heroes... Finally, the graphics that you are using are awesome! I love them.

[@agpaok0704]

First of all, these are not unspeakable here in Hellas. Second, the most risky thing someone could do that period, was to claim Roman land. Third, Basil did not blind the Bulgarians in order to torture them. He wanted to kill them all, but church didn't accept mass killing. So, he wanted to make them unable to fight again. And for last, I wanna mention that one common torture we used for captured soldiers, was to pull out his nails at the hand. Not breaking them, but take them out of the finger entirely. If you think that this does not hurt, I am telling you have no idea how painful it is.

[@ourdictatorship]

Around the 5:00 mark you stated that the faith of Constantinople was not Catholicism (Roman Catholicism, I think you mean), but Eastern Orthodoxy. This is not correct. The holy and mighty Church of Rome in the first millennium was fully in communion with us, and vice-versa. We were one, or Catholic, and Orthodox, or rightly believing, alongside the Church of Rome until 1054 AD.

[@harsesishoktar9386]

This world is trash

[@marccolas7531]

They were really barbarians😢 I wonder why eunuchs didn't seek for revenge for their conditions.

[@orlandodanielgonzalezalcar3360]

The most soft punishment in warhammer 40k

[@ГеоргиНайденов-э9р]

Should have mentioned that emperor Vasilii the Second blinded 14 000 bulgarian soldiers, leaving only 1 every 100 soldiers with one eye, to lead them.

[@rivermcjohnson]

And i thought the world was crazy these days..🤯🤯

[@andyfriederichsen]

Now do one on the unspeakable punishments of the Persian Empire and one on the punishments of the Ottoman Empire.

[@ShadesApeDJansu]

I think the emperor would be thrilled with todays science, but i think matter in human bodies still would not be mercifully spared everlasting or not. Had to watch this one since the thumbnail looked like me :D

[@DaimonaC]

We are not the “heirs” of the Byzantine empire, we ARE the byzantines but without our real capital …. 👑🇬🇷

[@kounias5108]

yes but these people never called them selfs byzantines 😯 but Romans. and their state eastern roman empire

[@DaimonaC]

@@kounias5108 yes but, in the same way, Greeks even today call themselves romans aka romoii

[@kounias5108]

@@DaimonaC not the same think.

[@chrysaignadu6135]

@@DaimonaC you have to study history

[@streetstroller]

@@DaimonaC that's weird.

[@joerock7657]

We can make America great again if you vote for me ALL OF THIS COULD BE YOURS ☠️

[@stonedwalljackson5806]

In 2022 we call castration,,, transitioning lol.

[@hieratics]

😂😂😂😂

[@jamesdcarroll1]

Ancient punishments are deeply traumatizing to the core. Seems like people back then were far more malicious than we could've ever imagined them to be.

[@stefanhernold345]

The strange thing about Byzantine cruelty is that it was the members of the East Roman elite, including the Emperor himself, who were in constant danger of being overthrown, blinded, castrated and sent off to spend the rest of their days in some remote hellhole of a monastery.

[@gerry5134]

🙎My Emperor has no nose. 🙍🏾‍♀️How does he smell ? 🤷Ruddy Awful !

[@ShadesApeDJansu]

Christian Finnish Frostiis Yes the soul cannot be destroyed that is true and calling it during a torture a mercy is a "funny" joke if you have great sense of humour like A Day In History does. Little bit of brutality never hurt no one... phrase that completely makes sense and my original joke :D What would the emperor said if he knew that matter (this includes human body also LOL) cannot be destroyed either, atoms only change form but matter never vanishes it always just changes form thus never is destroyed

[@ThePhlegming]

9:16 Damn, that's an unfortunate last name

[@west_park7993]

Basilios Bulgar Slayer left 1 out of each 100 one-eyed, to lead them back to king Samuel. When Samuel saw his blinded army, he got a heart attack and died. This is how the first Bulgarian Kingdom ended. It is peculiar to notice, that Samuel was a son of a noble man from the lands of what is now Macedonia. See the book "The First Bulgarian Kingdom" by Sir Steven Runciman.

[@concept5631]

Cool

[@BGBolyar]

Tsar* Samuil and there were 2 (arguably 3) rulers after Samuil. Also Sredets (Medieval Sofia) is not in Macedonia.

[@sidviscous5959]

The Comanche Indians of the western US would only say "hold my beer" to much of this stuff.

[@kellineburton]

Damn. Never thought I'd giggle by the man who named Lekapenos

[@Bryandan1elson]

youre telling me a dude named Basil Lekapenos was a eunuch? That is a joke that writes itself.

[@brainblox5629]

You should have mentioned that Tatikios was most likely from a Turkic background and became one of the most influential men in the empire without being royal

[@zarni000]

Weird you keep showing Simeon the Great picture when talking about a byzantine emperor. He was not a byzantine but bulgarian emperor

[@royriley6282]

Eunuch maker is also what I call soy products.

[@НиколайГенчев-ж4в]

2:37 this is King Simeon the Great, who is a Bulgarian King, and not a byzanite emperor.

[@Ryan-uk6zq]

Basil Lekapenos: I'm missing something Friend: You Lekapenos

[@codymarkley8372]

Clever

[@gs3048]

I’m sitting in 3 hours of traffic. Late to work. But I got all 4 of my balls so I’m not mad.

[@charjl96]

Lekapenos is a great name for a castrati!