Byzantine Emperors - Justinian - Belisarius - Byzantine Faces - Eastern Roman empire
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- A very big leap into the Easter roman Empire, also known as Byzantium, trying to decipher those all-look-the-same ecclesiastical, byzantine painting art with big eyes and small lips.
It was a very difficult process as I had to take inspiration from mosaics and damaged sculptures.
Some interesting history facts and wisdom included, that you can't find online, only in good old fashioned books written by Oxford historians.
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I would have prefer to watch Belisarius vs Atila the Hun, rather than Godzilla vs King Kong.
actually Velissarius lived 100 years after Attilah...
You mean Flavius Aetius
I love you Justinian ❤️
Greatest Emperor.
Thank you ❣️
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i agree with you
This channel's work is more valuable than tens of thousands views. It should be in millions views. Priceless work. I get to go back in time a thousand years ago.
I second Persia and Greek theaban generals empainodas and pelopiads l love history your work is very interesting
Another great video! Can you bring Anne Boleyn’s likeness to life of her likeness from her silver coin. Historians speculate that’s her real likeness. Her real portraits were destroyed after her downfall. That one coin was the only thing that survived. It’s somewhat damaged. Tracy Boman did a 3 part documentary on the fall of Anne Boleyn. On part one an artist sketched her likeness from that coin. I’m hoping you can bring her to life. Can you do the Mesopotamians and the Persians. Thank you 🙏
Interesting restoration of the men responsible for the final period of history when the Roman were a true great power. Had Persia not moved on them while they were trying to restore the West, they might have succeeded, only two major enemies remained, the Visigoths in Spain, and the Frankish Kingdom in Gaul. It's interesting to wonder what might have been.
Justinian gets criticized for his efforts but he did what he could to limit costs in his reconquests and was crippled by a major plague as well as the Persians. He came quite close and perhaps the major blows were that plague and the death of Germanus his nephew, brilliantly married to a beloved Ostrogoth princess, who might just have succeeded in bringing the Ostrogoths over to the empire as western Caesar or Augustus. Had that been pulled off, Italy might be been secure and more efforts possible in Spain.
Also, it was Maurice's unlucky if initially brilliant move to settle matters with Persia by helping a Persian prince secure his throne that led to the disaster of the great Persian war of 602-628. Justinian's western conquests actually held up till the eighth century. Nor can he be blamed fairly for the loss of Syria and Egypt to the new Islamic power.
@@regertz It wasn't unlucky. Maurice's move was the one that would have stabilized the border for decades. It was the moron who assassinated Maurice who was at fault for what was to come. Think about it, he saved that prince's life, treated him kindly, it turned out that prince felt a certain way about Maurice. He clearly desired vengeance, his behavior is clearly emotional, not rational. He could have taken Heraclius' deal and saved his own self but was clearly still too angry to do so.
I don't think the Sassanids made much difference to him, it was the bubonic plague that struck the empire around 537 that crippled his efforts
The perfidious Persians weren't the problem in the long run. The Romans managed to stop them anyway.
The real problem was the combination of the Justinian plague with the celestial event that decreased the sun's visibility substantially, causing draughts across the empire
It's a miracle the empire survived intact through probably it's worst year in history
Continue postando, muito interessante seu trabalho. Fica com Deus. OSS
Большое спасибо за ваши видео. Очень нравится как вы восстанавливаете и интерпретируете. Очень рад, что могу увидеть Святого Императора Юстиниана.
How come people from the ancient Roman, Greek, Armenian and Meditteranen cultures look so dashing? I wish I was born to one of their descendants!
They were "bellicosus"
Or the Apostles!!!💕🥰❤️☦️
i second this! the apostles real face please!
It's Eastern Roman Empire not byzantium empire.
It's exactly the same both of the names. In fact the term Byzantium came up in 18 th century to talk about the east part of the Roman empire, the Greek one
@@avgvstvscaesar7834 I am not going to be ate with you but you have to read what happened after 395 a. C. The empire was devided in east and west and each part of the empire continue to have its own destiny. They were both parts of the Roman empire. But now they were two. And in the east part very soon Latin were replaced by Greek just because the majority were Greeks. Nothing else nothing more! Have a nice day!
And Theodora ?!
Justinian look like a Fox.
Pagan Rome morphed into Papal Rome. Wow ! This is caesaro- papism. Justinian you are a genius.
The texts passing so fast! We couldn't read all information
Byzantium was the Roman Empire, the city of Rome, the old capital, was covered in weeds. It wasn't until much later that the city of Rome became powerful again, with the Roman Church being the defacto ruler of The City of Rome.
Please the king's of numedia
Great job by the way
Υπάρχει περίπτωση να κάνεις και τον Ιουλιανό τον Παραβάτη?
Nai, ton exo kanei idi. Einai sto "The Dominate" clip
We need Theodora
Κε Παναγιωτη μπραβο σας ,πολυ ωραια ολα οσα κανατε,,αλλα γιατι ολα στα αγγλικα ;;Δεν πρεπει να καταλαβουν κ οι Ελληνες ,που δεν ξερουν αγγλικα,τι λετε εκει ;;Απο πανω Ελληνικα κ απο κατω Αγγλικα ! Σας ευχαριστω. !
Justinian is very scary.
Curious to see what you think Justinian looked like after his illness.
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να σε ρωτησω ειναι δικο σου η απο αλλο καναλι?
Belisarius and Justinian look very Romanian.
That's what I thought as well. Both of them were Balkan-Latins, the same Romans that became modern day Romanians
Can u do East African or South African people? 🧿
Разве это Юстиниан? У того щеки полные были судя по скульптурам и мозаике. А этот худой какой-то. Интересно сеть сгенерировала..
Narses was a eunuque... so he couldnt possibly have facial hair....
Being eunuch did not authomatically meant you had no facial hair. In fact court of Constantinople had two groups of eunuch styled as "beardless" and "bearded". If eunuch had or lacked facial hair depended on time he was castrated. If it happened after puberty, they could have beard. If as a Child, they were without it. Narses was castrated as a Kid so he didn't had beard. But that is not the only reason why man often identified as Narses is most likely not really Narses.
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Justinian was not the best looking of men.
He doesn't look Greek to me in here.
And why he should be? He was Illyrian by origin and his First language was Latin. Above anything else he selfidentified in the 1st place as a Roman which was his main identity even in case he had feelings for Illyrian origin.
Kαλη δουλειά κάνεις. Ευ γε. Περνάς μηνύματα πανανθρώπινα όπως για τον οικουμενισμό που εφαρμόστηκε τότε. Και αυτό είναι το μοντέλο για το σήμερα...
Ottoman Empire please 🙏💕
Thanks for having uploaded it , Although Justinian 's eyes must have been somewhat smaller in real life .
Justinian was real life anime
@@jonsmith5626 hahaha ..that was a good one .
Yeah as I remember my eyes are smaller
@@bagiahkoukoubagia yo are you the tool my mum beats me with?
Gorgeous, the Eastern Empire ,Bizantion
@@avgvstvscaesar7834 sí, aunque yo me refiero al antiguo Bizantion de los griegos y a Bizas su jefe máximo.
@@enoczavalareyes8785 pero despues de los 320 cuando Constantine cambio el nombre a Constantinople, Bizantiim no existia mas... el nombre Bizantio fue nombrado por Charlemagne...
A fair attempt but I think Justinian should be illustrated with a rounder face and slight chin protrusion. Also its hard to tell but he might also have had a double chin which is not surprising since he was the wealthiest man in the empire and rarely left the capital (i.e overweight)
Always a joy. However the text comes and goes too quickly for us slower readers who are also enjoying the audio/music. Never miss a video!
I pause it or double tap and go back if it goes too fast.
Try pausing it, read it, then continue playing...
Tried these but it becomes very tedious.
Words cannot say how much important was Justinian for the story of the whole mankind till present times. If nowadays there are Civil Law systems is because of his Compilation where he collected the entire jurisprudence of the Latin and Roman Empire.
All but the religion part if he left that out all would be well today.
Fantastic. Thanks for sharing! Always fun to recreate faces of antiquity, and the Eastern Romans don't get enough attention in that regard when compared to Classical Greek, Hellenistic Greek, Republican Roman and Principate Roman eras.
By the way, where do you get your music? Sounds really cool, would like to hear more of it independently!
Keep them coming. How about Mayan & Incan rulers?!
There are not many realistic paintings or sculptures of Mayan or Incan rulers, are there? Correct me if I'm wrong.
@@CrisSelene Well no, there isn’t. But, maybe 🤔 w/ the software he’s using, it could possibly work 🤷♀️🤷♀️🤷♀️. Yeah, ur right, it’s more stylized than realistic
Εντυπωσιακό!!
Justinian had his hands full dealing with a vicious plague that appeared around 536-540. The effects of which devastated both the Byzantine and Persian Empires.
Could you do a "living" portrait of an individual named Phocas? He came in around 590 -600? A despotic hated man swept into power after a series of rebellions and riots stemming from the plague.
It makes me womit, because Haga Sofia is in the hands of Muslims.
Τέλειαααααααα δουλειά μήπως θα μπορούσατε να κάνετε και για την Θεοδώρα την γυναίκα του Αυτοκράτορα Ιουστινιανού;
Así la historia y sus personajes se perciben más cercanos. Muchas gracias
Good video 👍 Enjoyed it a lot, as usually. Especially the historical comments. Thanks for sharing 🙏🌷
I just know I am going to love it even before watching it. I recently found your channel (the algorithm does good things too) and I must say that your work is mesmerising.
Hail to Eastern Roman Empire
Hail to Roman empire. As it actually named.
Well done. Wasn't expecting Belisarius and Narses tbh. Both were fine additions to the vid though. You mentioned the Nika Revolt. I wonder what would've become of Justinian if it wasn't for Theodora's supposedly good timing. Any chance we'll get to see her face any time soon?
Sure!
@@panagiotisconstantinou ... and make it spicy!
Justiniano
Louis XIV Real Faces Pls
I can imagine the pain these men saw. Some of them truly loved God. Rest in peace
Problematically we have no portrait of Belisarius we can safely identify as his likness.Ravenna mosaic perhaps depicts him but it is not safely attested.Barberiny Ivory shows general notably similar to man from Ravenna mosaic which supports the chance it is the same man-Belisarius,but contoversly identyty of Emperor is again disputed on that ivory.It is very unlikely Narses is that man he is often presented to be on Ravenna mosaic(if he is present at all).From several reasons:He was already very old by the time mosaic was made,he was eunuch from his early childhood and these lacked beard,that man does not fit the only preserved physical description of Narses who is said to be notably small in stature and very thin.
Belisarius was actually of Greek origins, born in the then fully Hellenized Thrace. Not in Illyria. Note also that at the time there were no Illyrians left as the ancient tribe of Illyrians was fully latinized while plenty of so-called "Illyrian Emperors" were actually Latin (of Latin, not Illyrian origins)and a couple were actually of Greek origins. Justinian however was indeed a Dardanian and indeed the last Emperor to have Latin as maternal language.
@@avgvstvscaesar7834 As for Belisarius, he was from a military family and in his times Latin was still the main language in the Roman military - this even in the Haemus. But he was born in Greek Thrace in a Greek region and as long as his lineage was local he was Greek.
You know.... ethnic Greeks could talk Latin as well. Accept it. Now if he was not local, he could be Chinese or Australian Aboriginal if we start making hypotheses. The ""Roman" term was not a national term, it was a political one. He was a Roman citizen. The term "Roman" started getting an ethnic sense only after 1000 AD and particularly after 1204 BC for understandable reasons and it denoted ethnic Greeks. But back in his time it was a citizenship term, not a national one. Remember wannabe-ceasar? This was still an Empire, not a nation.
@@avgvstvscaesar7834 _Last week I encountered a Greek user who believes that Julius Caesar was Greek_
Ceasar may not have been Greek but plenty of patrician families claimed for themselves Greek ancestry - and go solve it with them, don't cry rivers here at me. Ceasar had as maternal language Greek, not Latin, and used exclusively Greek in his inner circle. Not Latin. Latin was used by him to communicate with his plebeians. In the old Senate Greek was heard more frequently than Latin and it was only the entry of the neo-patricians, i.e. plebeians who rose to patrician status in the 2nd BC century that increased usage of Latin.
Ceasar was noted by Plutarch that he was speaking Greek all that time and that some of his most famous phrases were spoken in Greek, not in Latin... including his last words to Brutus, which all Latin writers omit, cos they did not particularly like the case, but we are sure they were indeed uttered because of the usage of word "teknon" which back then was colloquial and used orally not in written speech, thus it would be something Ceasar would had said to Brutus at the moment of his murder.
Do we claim Ceasar as Greek? LOL! No. But that is who he was, that is who plenty of old patricians, the very people who built Rome (not the Ciceros and the Catos), were.
Belisarius as well as all emperors from gens Flavia were of Slavic origin, including Justinian, Constantine and Licinius. Diocletian also.
@@МиланПотић-б9х sLaViC oRiGiNs?!? Before even Slavs set their foot in the Danube... LOL! How cool is that! Maybe... he was American!
@@dinos9607 Slavs are the autochthonous population of the Balkans. About Justinian, we have two historical sources that describe him and state his real name and the names of members of the extended family, which are all Slavic. The first is from Theophilus under the name of Justinian's life, and the second is by Procopius.
Thank you for sharing . Fascinating . I truly appreciate the time it must take , thank you .💛
Thank you for bringing the past to the present and for us in the present to see the actors of history that is the past.
O mais fascinante é reconhecer algumas características destes rostos ainda hoje. Grande trabalho, como sempre!
Por que isso seria fascinante?
@@iacobus_riparius porque me faz mais próxima e parecida com eles, do que conforme eu imaginava. Não fica a impressão de que são somente nomes perdidos no tempo. Ao menos, eu penso assim.
How did I look like?
Damn, If somehow the time machine invented and I didn't die yet. The first place I'll visit is the Constantinople in the medieval times.
I believe it was a prosperous city back then.
I adore ancient architecture and culture, just look at the Theodosian Walls or Hagia Sophia. That huge architec still standing now. How the Persian or Arabs or other kingdom feels when they see such great tall and thick walls at that time. Giza Pyramid also great and ancient, but it's too far back and no one knows hot it's built.
If Mehmed II just mind his own fu*king business, perhaps Constantinople is already like a futuristic cyberpunk now instead of a 3rd country city like and fu*king change the name to Istanbul which worsen it by the name, cultural, and architecture. Damn you Mehmed, I wonder if he kills all the Constantinople citizen back then when the city falls. I'm a Muslim, don't get me wrong, but I never like Turkic people both from Turkey and Iran.
The total number of Byzantine Emperors was 94.
The 94 Byzantine Emperors reigned for a period of 1123 years 330-1453. Try to create all of them
The problem is the lack of quality portrayals we have of them therefore a lot of them are just going to be artistic liberties based on written documents
@@God-Emperor-of-Mankind85 Maybe our friend believes that Byzantium was the kingdom of the "heretic Greeks",as the church of Rome was teaching.
You have missed the lips. In the statue and mosaic they look full, not absent lips.
Spectacular, three people that I always wished have seen their faces
You only see their interpratation while only Justinian can be safely identified as for original mosaic this is based on. Belisarius only speculatively(though chance is solid) and Narses is most likely not present on that mosaic.
Belisarius needs his own Age of Empire 2 campaing
pls make Constantine the Great, Constantine 11th and Basil II
ωραία...αρκετά ακριβής η απεικόνιση
Συγχαρητήρια για την προσπάθεια. Μερικές διευκρινίσεις: Ο Ιουστινιανός Α’ γεννήθηκε στο Ταυρίσιο της Δαρδανίας που ανήκε στην υπαρχία Ιλλυρικού. Αυτό προξενεί το σύνηθες λάθος να χαρακτηρίζεται από κάποιους ιστορικούς “Ιλλυριός”. Γεγονός που δεν ανταποκρίνεται στην πραγματικότητα, διότι η επαρχία του Ιλλυρικού περιελάμβανε όλη την Ελληνική Χερσόνησο μέχρι την Παννονία. Η περιοχή που γεννήθηκε γεωγραφικά ανήκει στην Μακεδονία. Οι ιστορικοί της περιόδου εκείνης τον χαρακτηρίζουν Θράκα, γεγονός που επιβεβαιώνεται και από το όνομα του πατρός του Σαββάτιου το οποίο ήταν κατ’ εξοχήν θρακικό όνομα της εποχής. Το ίδιο αναφέρεται και στην «Ιστορία του Ελληνικού Έθνους», όπου θεωρείται ότι προέρχεται από «οικογένεια εκρωμαϊσμένων Θρακών χωρικών».
Ο Στρατηγός Βελισσάριος είχε και αυτός θρακική καταγωγή. Γεννήθηκε είτε στο σημερινό Ορμένιο Έβρου (Robert Graves «Count Belisarius and Procopius’s Wars», 1938), είτε στην Γερμανικεία της Θράκης, μεταξύ Ροδόπης και Άνω Στρυμώνος («Ιστορία του Ελληνικού Έθνους», Τόμος Ζ’, σελ. 155).
The East Roman Empire, the so called Byzantium, the rightful heir to the Roman Empire. Γι'αυτο και έχουν παραμείνει λέξεις όπως Ρωμιοσυνη, Ρωμιός, Ρωμιά, Ρωμιοί.
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Για τον Βελισάριο και τον Ναρσή μπορώ να πω πως είναι επιτυχημένοι κατά 95 % - 97% !
Ναι 🙂 υπάρχουν δύο προτομες του Ιουστινιανου και της Θεοδωρας που είναι πιο ρεαλιστικες οπότε μάλλον θα κάμω και άλλο βίντεο για αυτό.
Legend!
I always wanted to know what Belisarius looked like. Thank you for the video!
Be sure you still don't know that.
The only way to know what Belisarius truly looked like was to have been his contemporary, 1500 years ago.
Србин.
Нормално Лазо нити је византијац(измешљен појам)а рођен у Лесковацу.И дан данас му се литургија пева у Пећкој патријаршији,коју ке он саставио на Србском-јединородни сине,и слове Божији.
Још једна подметачина ватикана,беча и берлина.
Wait a minute, a eunuch with facial hairs? You're joking, right?
Nice try, thanks!
"American Dream" is a superpower "heaven on Earth" specimen of tasteful propaganda? No dude. Try playing EDM in a Hip Hop town and rather humbly thinking of it as your own little "American Dream" and see what you write after a few years if that.
I am not sure that Justinian looked like that...
You used the Wikipedia page on the origins of Iustinianus and Belisarius. Both of them were Roman, the term "Illyro-Roman" and "Thraco-Roman" means "Romans from Thrace/Illyria". Tauresium was probably the Latin name for Scopi, and the inhabitants of that city are referred as Romans, and Belisarius was also born in Diocese of Dacia in the city of Germania, also a Roman. Those two Romans were Balkan-Latins, the one's who became the modern Romanians.
Can you try and do Jesus Christ based off of icons ☦️😭
Not very handsome
Byzantium is Greece 🇬🇷
Egypt is greece? Syria is Greece? Italy is greece? And so on....
Μπράβο σε ότι έχεις κάνει
Feliz de ver estás imágenes muchas GRACIAS!!!
Your reconstruction was great and I think, it showed the slighty younger version of Iustinianus Magnus. On the mosaic I think, I have spotted a slight chubby double chin as a result of the luxuries in the eastern Roman palace.
Such videos always makes me want to have a time machine (one with style a.k.a. a Delorean or a magical like the Phoenix Gate from the Gargoyles animated series) to travel to these times and to take photos of those ancient rulers.
Because Narses was a eunuch, he couldn't have grown whiskers. They must have edited that feature on him.
I like justinian's style in his mosaic
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You should do Theodora
Is there video reproduction last byzantine emperor?
And Theodora?
It is noteworthy that the current people who live on the Balkan Peninsula do not look different, even though 1500 years have passed since then.
They look like South Serbs.
Not really. However Balkan admixture did happen with the Romans of the balkans so facial similarities surely exist
Justinian should be played by Ezra Miller.
Thank you
Forgive my ignorance but, since Narses was a eunuch, why do you depict him with a goatee?
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My grand father 🥰
Can you do hannibal of carthage please he has a famous statut
Eastern Roman Empire, Byzantine Empire, Empire of the Greeks.
@@ΓάιοςἸούλιοςΚαῖσαρ ну там же жили разные народы. Но это была до падения Рима Римская империя. Потом просто Византия.
Eyes look too big and pristine. If you look at any Byzantine mosaics, they're always exaggerated, kind of strange you didn't assuage this feature, instead giving Justinian bug eyes. Also, Belisarius was a military commander, kind of strange you portray his complexion like porcelain white, as if he's been living in cold climates. The climate in Anatolia was hot, and the fact that Justinian's reign was marked by eastern and African military campaigns means he'd be a lot ruddier or sun soaked, he was an adventurous man, much to the contrast of his reclusive master.
They didn't have bug eyes. Byzantine art is supposed to portray the spiritual aspect of the subject, that is why they mostly portray holy people.
The image at 1:44 does not match with the image at 1:50