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@rhysnichols8608

2y↑53

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 ‘barbarians’ 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 ‘barbarians’ 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 ‘terribly down cast’

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 “dog, would you kill your own master!?” 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 “ 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 hero’s ever performed greater miracles of valour than did Teia on that day” 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, “yet the goths still fought on until darkness, then the next day renewed the struggle until darkness again compelled them to pause” and the 3rd they sent envoys to Narcies to seek peace, their ‘terms’ 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. “They had such terrible experience at the desperate valour of the goths that they felt compelled to accept the conditions”

The Goths were finally driven out of Italy.

All comments from YouTube:

@EpichistoryTv

2y↑775

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.
If you want to watch the series with SUBTITLES, you will need to watch the individual episodes https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUOc2qodFHp8x5tpVvVyATUQi8GI1HSed. And don't forget you can support our work and get ad-free early access to new videos via Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/EpicHistoryTV

@emmanuelfernandez04

2y↑4

What video will you upload next?

@kieranraj847

2y↑10

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

@shadow17963

2y↑5

Make videos on ottomonic wars,ww2 and more napoleonic wars

@Hello-ig1px

2y↑1

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.

@joellaz9836

2y↑6

@@Hello-ig1px

Belisarius and Justinian were not Greek and they both spoke Latin as their first language.

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@hugehoglilnuts2905

2y↑2.9K

Dude it’s honesty so insane the amount of opportunities this man had to betray Justinian and didn’t, only for him to still be skeptical of him in the end

@robr135

2y↑319

Roman emperors have a history of betrayal at the closest level. Don't blame him what with all the chaos around the empire.

@crist6587

2y↑232

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.

@alexzero3736

2y↑62

I believe he should slay Justinian and become Emperor himself, then Goths would stay loyal to Rome and Narseus would have to obey him.

@crist6587

2y↑51

@@alexzero3736 Than he wouldn't be that worth to be remembered would he?

@DAVEBROWNE2004

2y↑77

He's like Marshall Zhukov was to Stalin no?

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@Drpepperspray1010

40w↑784

Belasarus: “I won’t accept any new emperor other than Justinian”

Justinians wife: “This must be treason!!” 😱

@sondersmiles9727

37w↑231

Seriously! Women stirring up drama since the beginning of history

@JamesZheyuXu

36w↑52

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.

@user-fq2jt7lv8l

36w↑42

Since Justinian was childless, she could want to become empress should her husband die before her.

@Businessgoose123

36w↑28

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.

@innosanto

35w↑3

Justinian wife supported Belisarius.

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@dianapire2238

18w↑167

Belisarius: is away for five minutes

everything starts dramatically falling apart

@robr135

2y↑1.4K

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.

@rockstar450

1y↑1

They were actually disgusted at what a dump Italy had become. Other than protecting the statues and cosplaying as Romans to avoid getting attacked, the goths had aggressively de-Romanised Italy

@pyter8949

1y↑66

great cultural value.

@sanjunipero3688

1y↑29

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.

@rockstar450

1y↑29

@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

@gs7828

1y↑5

@@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.

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@theitalianguy9979

2y↑2.6K

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!

@masonmoore3473

2y↑24

Superb!

@theyankeesamurai23

2y↑80

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.

@taylorjensen2787

Because everything has sucked in mainstream culture for A WHILE. They have been taken over along with everything else by this corrupt corporate government deep state, this information control, this war on people who have the sin of wanting Americans back in control of their lives with the truth... not this false reality our institutions keep pushing. This racist, gay, gender confused, revisionist anti white history, the anti man anti Christian anti American anti capitalist anti Constitution crap. Yes I'm talking the liberal world order... the same one who are completely tied to literally every major corporation that controls everything we do... that are also propped up by our tax dollars cuz they are "too big to fail" and also they are "to be used to go around what the government can do to its people cuz private corporations in a giant monopoly does not follow the same law and now have to do what they say cuz either they are being propped up by tax dollars or will benefit from doing these things like spreading lies, suppressing speech of Republicans "extremists" who just happen to be the only people trying to call this great threat out... interesting, but a total coincidence. But you see, even saying the government is doing this which is a TOTAL lie as they say, is just too dangerous to even say... even those it has no evidence and is a total lie... that's why it must be hidden and labeled dangerous extremists threat to democracy... THATS YOUR VOTE. They are evil white men THAT WANT TO TAKE YOUR VOTE AWAY.... not just Americans who see this corruption who are trying to fight it... nope it's all a white man group... even the Hispanics and black Americans and Jewish Americans and EVERY GROUP. But oh it is a group of white men who meet in a great tower that decide whatever... it makes no sense... THEY OWN EVERYTHING.... we are just Americans... join us, or just get out of the way, JUST STOPPED BEING USED BY THEM to BE IN OUR WAY. I promise you will see... but first stop standing in front of us... turn around and look at what wr are marching toward.

@taylorjensen2787

@@theyankeesamurai23 they believe in pushing a sick agenda for these progressives instead of quality... let's be honest here

@dunkcsa9780

I do too, probably because these vids are actually good unlike the vast majority of garbage that Hollywood spews out these days

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@aleciamiaric8799

1y↑366

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.

@mentalasylumescapee6389

1y↑8

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.

@shahedulislam94

34w

@@mentalasylumescapee6389pppl
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@Matty6447

20w↑5

@@mentalasylumescapee6389he never mentioned the cgi though? And also there’s still a lot of editing and graphics involved other than setting up those battles in game. Plus, I don’t know about you but the ai in those games are pretty shit so it’s not that easy setting up certain attacks and battles as you may think. Even when both sides are controlled by a player the ai for the units mess up constantly and mispositions itself

@FelixMendelson

20w↑1

Hey Hollywood can we get films about real historical figures?

Hmm best we can do is..marvel films.
OK 🆗 we will make Napoleon, but we will butcher it :D

@calebsagert8301

16w↑1

@@FelixMendelsonAt least we got Oppenheimer

@chungus1219

1y↑755

Belisarius was the General that Justinian didn’t deserved

@TheAtl0001

He might have been a great soldier, yet he was an idiot and pathetic like a dog who gets kicked by his master and nonetheless crawls back to get kicked even more.

@chungus1219

1y↑78

@@TheAtl0001 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.

@catholiccrusader5328

1y↑13

You got that right.

@lazyguy3081

1y↑103

Wait till you hear about Flavius Stilicho

mf got killed for being too good at his job

@chungus1219

1y↑6

@@lazyguy3081 yeah lol

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@LeadLeftLeon

2y↑1.6K

Belisarius deserves a major film

@sandorpragai1966

1y↑55

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.

@InDadequate

1y↑41

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

@chrisshort4121

1y↑3

@@nupnorth haha nope.

@shitonabrik13times

make him black and trans

@cabinfever1431

1y↑3

F-ing agreed

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@yourroyalchungusness

2y↑775

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

@dominicp9296

1y↑12

Why thank goodness? I rather a 10 hour video full of details. You can't sit and learn for more then 2 hours?

@dominicp9296

1y↑8

@@williammacdonald9905 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

@tradespacetech7162

1y↑13

@@dominicp9296 calm down dominic

@dominicp9296

52w↑3

@@tradespacetech7162 lolllll love it

@ektorkiritsios51

13w

You are wright .From the most integral man ever passed.

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@andresalphie5400

2y↑176

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!

@danielchequer5842

1y↑197

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

@tmpwow4282

29w↑18

Imo the Eastern Roman's didn't rise again only because of plague and the later war against the Sassanids. If the plague didn't happen or the Sassanids were less trigger happy history would've been a lot different

@danielmorris7648

21w↑2

Well that certainly doesn't remind me of anything

@colmmooney1474

20w↑6

Well, do remember, when the colossal Roman Empire fell in 1453, it did not go out with a tame whimper, but it held off a very strong force for 2 months, and held its ground till the very end. The Roman Empire came so close to surviving the siege, if only their western allies had not used the situation to negotiate better deals for themselves with the Ottomans. I do consider myself a bit of an expert of this particular siege, so, if you have any questions, please feel free to ask me.

@_unkown8652

10w↑3

@@colmmooney1474 i was wondering why exactly the western powers didn’t exactly come to help the Roman Empire, which they all revered by this point. The Roman Empire was so idealised back in the medieval times, so when I learned that 1/ it still existed in 1453 2/ the western powers let it get destroyed
I was pretty confused

@colmmooney1474

10w

If there is any questions about The Siege of Constantinople that you would like to know, please feel free to ask me. Or, ask me any questions about the Roman Empire in general. :) @@_unkown8652

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@l.lawliet164

2y↑351

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.

@rdf4315

2y↑28

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.

@justinlast2lastharder749

2y↑11

@@rdf4315 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.

@archivesoffantasy5560

1y↑4

@@rdf4315 Scipio Africanus and Julius Caesar are both clear. I’d also say Constantine the Great is debatably better. But I’d have Belasarius as a top five Roman General.

@rdf4315

1y↑9

@@archivesoffantasy5560 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.

@archivesoffantasy5560

1y↑3

@@rdf4315 Constantine the Great never lost a battle and he took on many Roman armies that outnumbered his own.

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@zenith6939

2y↑557

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!

@All_Hail_Chael

2y↑8

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!

@brianswelding

1y↑76

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.

@InDadequate

1y↑4

you're absolutely right, like an Oscars for content creators

@ruaidhrilb9209

19w↑13

This is absolutely incredible. Maybe the best historical analysis on a figure of history on YouTube.
It’s addictive to watch.
Bravo!!
I watch this all the time. So well done.

@justinlast2lastharder749

2y↑574

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.

@cooldudep

2y↑61

For the Emperor.

@ravinrabbit7932

1y↑21

Oh yes i got these vibes too.. we need some Bucellaris-Chapters.

@AtillatheFun

1y↑24

Not really abnormally long. The life expectancy was low due to infant mortality, but adults all lived long lives.

@someromaboo

1y↑12

@@AtillatheFun Search Belisarius Cawl

@VictorIV0310

1y↑7

His work on the Primaris Project has some potentially…interesting results should the rumor that some of them come from Traitor and Lost Legion geneseed stock prove true.

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@DGordillo123

2y↑116

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.

@jsb1585

2y↑5

I agree, there's something really powerful about it. The music helps a lot too.

@jessekennedy4003

1y↑73

Ten minutes into the video, I bought the first six books of History of the Wars. Thanks for the inspiration!

@stormrider6202

1y↑1

And learn who the Illyrians are first before reading ! 🇦🇱

@aproudeuropean559

1y↑8

@@stormrider6202 some balkan tribes who have almost nothing to do with the albaians even though the albanians would really love to?

@Unknown00432

40w

@@aproudeuropean559 Belisarius was illyrian just like Justinian

@colmmooney1474

20w

These are great books to buy, the works of Procopius form the basis of my Ph.D. It is a very important time in the history of the Roman Empire.

@michelarsenault4088

1y↑50

''Give me a Empire of Humble Origins! Give me a Hero of Law and Order!...Give us The Roman Empire!''

@phillawrence5148

2y↑174

Belisarius has got to be the busiest General in history 😳

@thomasriccio4873

1y↑57

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.

@tiringsarcasm

1y↑40

@@thomasriccio4873 For that point in time, we were lucky Justinian trusted Belisarius at all.

@thomasriccio4873

1y↑17

@@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.

@histguy101

50w↑8

@@thomasriccio4873 Caesar dealt with numerous mutinies and insubordination

@kittykattzee

48w↑3

Aurelian also got pretty busy lol

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@Midgard458

2y↑77

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

@janfiedler5584

1y↑1

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 ...

@yuriy454

24w

@@janfiedler5584Rus ≠ Russia

@Mago808

15w↑16

I’ve rewatched this so many times, truely a timeless video. 10/10

@CS-rh2ce

1y↑60

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.

@bobbowman3665

2y↑29

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

@argkkar7450

2y↑167

Please do more videos about Eastern Rome. It has a wonderful history, with its ups and downs. Unfortunately the negative aspects are mostly known.

@liamevers115

2y↑4

exactly

@dariusghodsi2570

2y↑13

I'd like to see more late roman and sasanian wars

@seyityilmaz6301

34w

@@dariusghodsi2570actually there is a channel called 'historymarch' which have a detailed wars between the romans and abbasids which overtake the sassanid Empire and there is a military genius commander who broke the roman empires influence in the Eastern front: the halid bin velid. like a junior belisarius i guess:)

@georgemargaritis2392

Eastern Rome is a forged term.
It is Roman Empire

@kahlesjf

1y↑69

So well-narrated. A feat in itself. Fascinating series.

@cesarcarvajalcastillo5502

42w↑7

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!!!

@KLR_MJ

2y↑67

This is the subject of my history test you are saving me on the last second

@Undyingglorydotcom

2y↑5

Destiny some time is funny and helpful

@JuanPablo-ki7kq

Legend
Put the epic music on the test
The teacher Will end up shacking

@ledzep215

2y↑102

Been waiting for this since the second episode 6 ended. So happy! Thank yall for all the hard work yall put into this :3

@alexandercortese258

20w↑5

one of the most beautiful and detailed documentaries on youtube. The Justian Age and the Belisarius campaign is incomparably outstanding . Beautifully narrated and rich in pictures, thank you very much

@Nic-mq8hm

1y↑7

Excellent!!!! This has to be one of the best, most thorough historical documentaries about Rome, specifically the Eastern Empire I've ever heard!

@juliuscaesar413

2y↑53

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! Can’t wait for what’s next!

@dominicp9296

52w

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

@Arupmondal-kr2zr

32w

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@stevenpatrick9213

2y↑13

This series is probably the best historical series I’ve seen, and I’ve seen countless

@donaldtimpson4320

1y↑51

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.

@donaldtimpson4320

1y↑2

@@Epictvgiveaways Lol. Obvious scam attempt.

@thelimon4338

33w

@@donaldtimpson4320I wish I’d win the giveaway

@davedeman8093

37w↑18

He doesn’t 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

@gabethepianist313

2y↑108

One of my favorite video series. Belisarius is truly one the greatest Romans generals. It’s great to see Italy come back in Roman hands, even if it caused the dark ages in Italy.😦

@haxel8929

2y↑22

Justinian and Belisarius tried their best.There was no way to know that the Plague and a great volcanic eruption would happen at the same time of the conquests.Less lucky than emperor Carus who got struck by lightning

@gabethepianist313

2y↑12

@@haxel8929 that is a valid point.

@davids3282

2y↑14

@@gabethepianist313 If you think about it what are the odds of something happening with this kind of timing? Its ridicolous.

@jcl644

2y↑7

Belisarius, didnt know such a noble and great general exist until today...

@jtmartin1170

1y↑1

@@jcl644 He was great, but not noble. The Secret Histories of Procopius illustrate him and Justinian as monsters who committed genocide and brutally repressed the people of Constantinople

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@Big_BossFOX

2y↑23

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.

@thomasriccio4873

1y↑5

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.

@williamhenning4700

1y↑7

This was absolutely incredible. This is one of the best documentaries I’ve ever had the fortune of viewing ( professionally done or otherwise ).

@Midgard458

2y↑10

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

@angusyang5917

1y↑26

Fun fact: During the reign of later Byzantine emperor Romanos I Lekapenos (r. 920-944), one of his generals, John Kourkouas, was hailed as the second coming of Belisarius because of his monumental victories against the Arabs, which laid the foundation of the later Macedonian Renaissance under Nikephoros II Phokas, John I Tzimiskes, and Basil II the Bulgar-Slayer. This just shows you that four centuries later, the Byzantines still held Belisarius in high regard, and held him as a standard to which others were compared.

@thewitchking852

1y↑7

Ah yes the "White Death," a true badass in his own right. And people think the Roman empire fell in 476... just ask Nikephoros Phokas, John Tzimiskes, Alexios and Manuel Komnenos how they felt about that

@angusyang5917

1y↑1

@@thewitchking852 The Roman Empire is said to have fallen in 476 b/c that was the year that Rome itself fell to the Germanic king Odoacer. However, this ignores many Roman holdouts across the Mediterranean, like Julius Nepos in Dalmatia, who ruled until 480, Syagrius in Gaul, who ruled until 486, and of course, the Eastern Roman Empire, who would reconquer Rome itself and survive until the 1470s (the capital itself fell in 1453, but Byzantine remnants, the last of which were the Principality of Theodoro and the Despotate of Epirus (ruled by a Latin dynasty at this point) fell in 1475 and 1479)

@MrBubblecake

Not the eunuch LackofPenis and the Pokeass clan 😩 a terrible time for the empire when it came to names

@andrewhein7281

39w↑3

Belisarius deserves to be remembered, what a incredible story of his. man I’m happy for procopius documenting all of this.

@Eazy-ERyder

1y↑7

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!

@davidharris3728

1y↑7

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!

@rickwarner3954

1y↑5

What a fantastic documentary! I found it riveting at every turn. Thank you so much! Can't wait to share this with my kids.

@JDMilitaria

37w↑2

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.

@doctorvonbrown881

Michelle your research and info is top notch! I can't believe how much you cram into one video. I can safely say that out of all the researchers in this field, i can share your videos without any threat of ridicule because you simply present your opinion with such great research and hard dedicated work. Simple and plain with no fantastical claims. Plus you do it in a very respectful way with no ego! Thanks for all you do!

@monkeyman321

1y↑17

This couldn’t be more epic. Procopious would be proud.

@jtmartin1170

1y↑7

Throws the Secret History at your head

@didiervangestel2208

2y↑4

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!

@nodnalneyugn8753

1y↑3

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.

@veryllfattrope16

31w↑3

Amazing! I didn't lose not a second of my life, watching this great documentary ❣️
Thank you.

@AnimeWins

2y↑21

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!

@deron2203

2y↑16

Man every documentary this channel has made is just amazing! I can't believe we get to have such great free content!

@chnjk

44w↑5

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...

@mikelatino8126

2y↑4

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...

@henrymorgan3982

2y↑7

There are no words to describe this Epic History Channel. It is a continuous sharpening of historical art. Belisarius makes all of the "Generals" of the past two centuries look like wussies! Short sticked and all, this man made it HAPPEN! Hail Belisarius! Thank you Epic History TV!

@cardenevans5580

What about Aurelian

@rhysnichols8608

2y↑53

@joellaz9836

2y↑5

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 twenty‑six, 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.

@Anonymous07192

1y↑7

Tortilla was indeed a fine leader and a worthy adversary to the biscuit eaters.

@tmpwow4282

29w↑1

Pretty cool he knew of refeeding syndrome that far long ago

@cognitivedisability9864

20w

Those romans holding the tomb of hadrian were some god damn legends.

@greatsageequaltoheaven8115

17w

@@cognitivedisability9864 Not really fighting for a tomb makes them simps lol 😂.

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@holasenor000

9w↑1

I got goosebumps about 30 times in this video, the best video about history I've ever seen, excellent work.

@zatoichison6420

44w↑2

This series kept 2.15 hours to see it !! Thank you. Great piece of history and research work .

@Shaman1879

2y↑4

Love that you guys used Total War gameplay footage for this! My favorite strategy game!

@EscaExcel

2y↑16

Amazingly well done history of Belisarius', these are always highly informative and entertaining. Thank you so much for your great work.

@jeffmcmahon615

DONT KNOW WHAT TO SAY.... THIS IS THE BEST ROMAN HISTORY ACCOUNT I HAVE EVER WATCHED ! FROM THE CAPTURING VISUALS TO THE ELOQUENT, POLISHED NARRATION, IT HAD ME! I WISH THEY HAD SUCH THINGS WHILST I WAS IN A YOUTH LEARNING AND GATHERING KNOWLEDGE. MAKES ME WANT TO VISIT THE CHURCH OF APOSTLES... THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS!

@teddyjackson1902

1y↑1

I want the channel creators to know how much I appreciate this history being told as Roman history. It’s as the contemporaries themselves saw it. The Byzantine distinction is a contemporary invention that is confused and disjointed, it’s invention likely rooted in ancient cultural and religious rivalry. I’d like to see it discarded altogether.

@lucienlapidus

1y↑7

Wonderfully made, great speaker and so very, very informative. Thanks very much!

@Danymok

1y↑5

1:56:13 This was Belisarius's greatest victory. Thank you

@MW-hv1cl

1y↑10

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.

@resentfuldragon

1y↑1

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.

@PuellaMagiHomuraAkemi

Whats there to love? Looks horrible, look at all the flickering. Utterly terrible, there is a reason why all the Total Wars between Medieval II and TW Warhammer were all trash. Its not just due to the Warscape Engine being trash cause it makes nobody have ANY COLLISION with each other and forces 1v1 (while everyone patiently watches) but the general visual quality also just went so much worse while it requires a better PC lol, cant watch this

Would look ages better from a mod.

@adanyaneslopez4649

1y↑8

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!!

@mohammadyeasinkhan6885

2y↑12

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?

@mikemonroy1

2y↑3

Excellent.Truly a magnificent presentation of history. Thank you.

@DavidWillisSLS

29w↑8

They need to make a series in the style of HBO’s ROME for Justinian and Belisarius

It would be absolutely perfect

@realisthmong

41w↑2

Wow. What great history this is. This channel needs to live on forever in history as well.

@blacksky3805

2y↑3

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 again😊

@IsaacRaiCastillo

11w↑4

Without a doubt, the best documentary about Belisarius that anyone has made on YouTube and that finally brings to the public's eyes the greatness of the true last Roman general in history, very close to antiquity, but already at the dawn of the Middle Ages. I hope that people begin to see him as one of the best generals in history, as he deserves, although we should not leave Narses behind, who also proved to be at his level, despite not having the same merits.

@_unkown8652

10w↑1

You described it very well: very close to antiquity, but irremediably into the Middle Ages. These conquests that seem to bring back the Roman Empire to its full glory are only temporary, and, barely a century later, the Arab invasions will make the Roman Empire understand the truth: they aren’t made for this time anymore.

@IsaacRaiCastillo

10w↑2

@@_unkown8652 I have read that many historians point out that the fundamental reason why this happened (the Byzantine inability to maintain its new borders after Justinian), was a direct consequence of the population weakening that the Empire suffered with the plague. I'm not saying that this could have prevented the Arab conquest (it may have given much more resistance), but at least it would have helped to maintain control over the recovered European territory for longer, such as the Italian peninsula and also the attempt to reconquer Hispania from hands of the Visigoths (by the end of Justinian's reign, the Byzantines had control over the southern coasts of Iberia and the Balearic Islands, in preparation for a campaign that was never carried out; while with the arrival of King Leogivild just after, lost all possibility of expansion).

@liferx4343

29w↑1

The soundtrack of this documentary along with the narrator make it one of the most well done documentaries' ever.

@Xristos888

27w↑6

such a privilege to be able to watch this for free great content dude!

@CharlesbGallup

2y↑3

This was excellent. Reminds me a vintage History Channel documentary. Thank you much.

@jamesraymond1158

45w↑3

Absolutely amazing accomplishment. So well narrated and illustrated.

@joepapa71

48w↑3

Wow I have only gotten halfway through this video and am amazed at how well put together and how much knowledge has been shared.

@nito_too_diligent

2y↑13

Who is happy Epic History has dropped an entire documentary on us

@debraisingh2743

38w↑4

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!

@omnius28

1y↑1

I can't believe how awesome this docu-series is. I've watched it many times and never get sick of it.

@akesha4138

2y↑3

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.

@domingokenner5922

40w↑3

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.

@mali15j

2y↑5

this is undoubtedly the most exciting and best series Epic History - God damn!
I get goosebumps when i watch your Justinian war series

@akesha4138

2y↑2

It amazes me that with all the complexities to unravel this super complex history, that a competent differentiated timeline of events can be now be enjoyed with confidence of accuracy. A history professor asked me 45 years ago what I thought of the ancient world. "Well" I said, "It seems to me that history is the telling of the cycles of empires; one rising, one falling in what seems to be endless wars."

@tom02061997

1y↑2

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.

@fabioaya6320

1y↑3

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! 👏🏻👏🏻

@almightybogza

39w↑4

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

@omerroztas

17w↑2

dude this man is a true monument of loyalty... R.I.P Last Roman

@andrewfish3141

2y↑1

Wow,this is one of the best,if not the best documentary I've ever seen,nothing other there with exception of few TV series like Game of thrones,Vikings and Taboo got my atention like,what a nice 2hrs to spent it was ,congratulations,purely gold😍❤

@joz6683

2y↑20

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.

@EpichistoryTv

2y↑7

It's a great book!

@paprskomet

2y↑2

Just be careful to distinguish Graves fictive episodes from those actually recorded.

@joz6683

2y↑1

@@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?

@hashambachani

1y↑1

@@joz6683 Procopius History of the Wars, the main source of this series as well.

@t.n.h.ptheneohumanpatterna8334

1y↑1

@@EpichistoryTv Why do u refuse to make ww2 videos you would be so rich and I will be so happy I don’t get it

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@scottkain8977

1y↑7

It sounds like General Flavius Belasarius is one of the greatest commanders of all time based on this written knowledge... There is NO EXCUSE as to why modernity does not teach more of what this man accomplished. There should be movies about Belasarius and every school should have chapters about him in history class. Very underappreciated.

@dennismtz817

The western barbarians hate the greek history when it doesn't fit their narrative

@FelixMendelson

20w

Yes there is an excuse .
And you know damn well who runs the show in Hollywood.

They would never make such a film and if they did they would butcher it.
They would make Bellasarius a disabled high BMI black American woman .

Ideally history could be taught through film a lot more but all we get is remake of remake.
This time with an all female cast or something like that.

@smacpost3

1y↑1

That was a really good production. Incredible. Thank you so much.

@ramonvicioso1954

25w↑1

This is a masterful story. This is the most amazing story telling!!! You are just a legend!!! I was enthrall the whole time!!! I highly recommend it to anyone that enjoy history

@gravitykat714

1y↑3

This is my favorite series YALL have done. Educated me on a part of Byzantine history I didn’t know much about. And pains me that when famous generals are brought up belasarius I never spoken about

@KHK001

2y↑5

A great serie! thanks for your work

@stefangabor5985

1y↑1

Your documentaries are simply the best, thank you for sharing.

@Francesco-bu1hh

1y↑1

Thank you for the splendid production. I have really enjoyed it.

@ByzantineCapitalManagement

44w↑3

I am a huge Belisarius fan since my childhood. Glad to see his story covered.❤

@dsfdfdfdsa

42w

I am amazed I never heard of him until I watched this video, the man is underrated and deserves more attention.

@alechboy3578

35w

@@Unknown00432Serbia is better anyways.

@kanderson772

35w

@@alechboy3578at what? Slaughtering unarmed women and children, and smelling terrible?
Death to Serbia

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