Byzantine Emperors - Empress Theodora - Real Faces - The Imperial Court
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 เม.ย. 2021
- A good look into the late antiquity Byzantium, this time at the charismatic empress Theodora, the wife of emperor Justinian, as well as her courtiers, women servants and eunuchs.
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I must say your choice in music to accompany the visual art is outstanding.
Bizantine history is fascinating.
I find the music to be incredibly creepy
I think I found the subtitled version. I think this is the most accurate version:
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Μία ακόμη εξαιρετική εργασία!!
Παρά πολύ καλό! Η μουσική απόλυτα υποβλητική!!
Justinian really had it all. Intellect, a best buddy who was among Rome/Byzantium's best if not the best general, a beautiful, strong, loyal, and supportive wife, loving family, grateful people, powerful army, a rich nation, and achieved his dream of bringing Rome back one last time as close as he and Belisarius could to her former glory.
Lose a plague, move a bit faster, quell a couple of greedy insolent generals, get Germanus and that Goth queen wife in faster as Caesar and Queen of the West and Justinian might well have pulled it off. Possibly not so grateful people though...Given the Nika riots. But what an incredible story.
Well, maybe not _that_ good but he had a full deck and managed to achieve some amazing things with the help of his team
So going by the name Justinian it sounds like an Arminian name
Justinian and Theodora were degenerate monsters who bankrupted their country, ruined and tortured tens of thousands and failed to protect hundreds of thousands of Byzantine citizens. The brutal suppression of the Nika Revolt--why were they revolting if they were such capable, just leaders?--had killed thirty thousand aggrieved citizens, all for power.
But it all went sour whit the entrance of the plague in 542. It really destroyed everything.
Somebody please make a major film about Theodora!!!!
ive been screaming into the void for years about making movies/tv show about that whole era. Belisarius, Justinian, Theodora; the whole gang and their adventures.
Jennifer Aniston can play the part. She's Greek-American, which would make her look the part.
That would be amazing to watch!
Rather Justinian.
Sadly, the won't. For some reason, the West disesteems Byzantine history. They'll enthusiastically make movies about the pagan Romans, but never take upon it to make a movie about the Eastern Romans.
And something else: the music!!! It's always amazing! Please write the titles!
I think I found the subtitled version. I think this is the most accurate version:
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@@roufamagga4453 not sure how the link to the video you posted has anything to do with the music?
The track is "Look at This" from the Raised by Wolves soundtrack. I finally hunted it down!
@@mushmozz5413 YES, well done 👍👍👍
@@mushmozz5413 Thank you!
You cannot get a more Greek face than that.
I think I found the subtitled version. I think this is the most accurate version:
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Literally no one was looking greek
Από πού συμπεραίνεις ότι ήταν Ελληνίδα?
@@fobouts Ελληνίδα από την Κύπρο ήταν
@@user-sz9dj1pl9o ε και ? ποιος σου ειπε οτι η κυπρος ειχε αμιγως ελληνικο πληθυσμο. συμφωνα με τους ιστορικους εικαζεται πως η τσουλαρα ηταν ελληνιδα δεν αποδεικνυεται ομως απο κατι
Wow 🤩 I would like to see Irene of Athens
or Eudokia the Carbon Eyed.
Your Theodora, though beautiful, has a round face and doesn't have the elegance and imperial superiority of the Ravenna mosaic. But then again maybe the real empress didn't have the breathtaking quality and spirituality of the mosaic! Maybe she was a more earthly lady. Anyway, as you wrote, Theodora fought against the trafficking and tried to help the victims, the girls and women of the Empire (with not much success...). I wonder if the feminists today know her interesting story.
Yeah, she apparently tried to offer the street women and girls of Constantinople a chance to reform their lives as she had, in a sort of convent, but they loathed it so that many jumped from the windows. Yet her concern for women seems sincere and Procopius really did her and Justinian down in exaggerated fashion even claiming they were demons who could remove their heads... Of course General Belisarus suffered from her wrath but he did at least at one point shoot his mouth off about kicking her out if the Emperor died of illness and even of removing Justinian if necessary. Even then she spared him for Antonia's sake and for his friendship with Justinian, though she apparently grabbed half his fortune. Very interesting couples those two Belisarus was constantly cuckolded by Antonia but adored her while she seemed to love him in her way, protecting him from his rashness with Theodora, and they stayed together to the end and Theodora and Justinian seem to have truly loved each other in turn.
Wow... I love this. It's said that Theodora was very beautiful, and you've captured her perfectly!
Really good information on historical people. The Empress was very beautiful!🌹
I think I found the subtitled version. I think this is the most accurate version:
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She was one of those behind every great man there is a great woman examples. She greatly strengthened him.
I think you're wrong. She was never "behind" of justinian. She had an active role, she wasn't someone who can be identified behind a man
@@BeyzaByza Well, he wasn't just "a man", he was Emperor of the Roman Empire. She wasn't Empress Irene, she seemed to embrace the "behind him role", she supported him and his rule, she didn't betray him and seek to rule herself. She was why he didn't flee during the riots early in his reign. She "had his back" as the saying goes. She was definitely "behind him". That is not necessarily a bad or even subordinate thing, everyone can't be #1, and in that realm at that time, she was definitely #2 as he was #1. It's that the reality of that situation, everyone in the Roman Empire regardless of the pre 476 A.D. Empire, or this era was behind, beneath, less than the Emperor, period.
@@jonathancummings6400 He indeed made his fame beyond his personality, it's understandably political. He was brilliant but she was braver than him since he was almost escaping. She went from 0 to empress, but Justinian became emperor because of Justin. So he went from emperor to successfull emperor.
@@BeyzaByza you are absolutely, truely ,perfectly ,undoubtely right .
I think I found the subtitled version. I think this is the most accurate version:
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I enjoy your post so much. Informative and puts a real face to the people of the past. Thank you so much.
You are so welcome
I think I found the subtitled version. I think this is the most accurate version:
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Congratulations, Panagiotis Constantinou ! That's a great job Greetings from your empress
Thank you very much!
Damn! Theodora was definitely Greek. She’s the spitting image of my high school girlfriend Panagiota straight from Queens New York. Uncanny!
So you're saying Theodora looks like an American
@@MCArt25 - No. I’m saying Theodora looks like my high school girlfriend!
@@MCArt25 - what does an American look like?
I have only recently discovered your work, and you consistently take my breath away. I'm an artist myself - drawing, some painting, sculpting - and I once did some digital work. Seeing your is so truly inspiring. I love the ancient and classical world, and while I don't know a lot about Empress Theodora, the way you've captured her shows a woman of power and almost good nature. Have you ever considered trying to do a later portrait? I'd love to see Marie-Antoinette of France given the Panagiotis treatment! Also, you are so handsome, but that's neither here nor there.
My friend, East Roman Empire's history is very little discovered by the West, I guess because of the Schism. It's equally fascinating and more complex than Roman history and even lasted longer. Oddly enough such rich history, apart from been studied and known by few, has never attracted the interest of the movie industry. There are countless movies about Rome, her wars and her achievements and none about Constantinople, the biggest and most glorious city in the world for 1100 years! I mean, they don't even have to write a script, you just open a book and it's like watching Game of Thrones! (yes there even existed a secret super-weapon like the one Cersei Lannister used to burn her rivals...)
@@miltospep21 totally agree!
I think I found the subtitled version. I think this is the most accurate version:
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😅😅😅
Thanks so much Panagiotis! Ευχαριστώ Παναγιώτη!
I have visited Ravenna and am so glad to see the mosaics I have seen brought to life. Well done, Μπράβο!
I think I found the subtitled version. I think this is the most accurate version:
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Damn Theodora... 🔥
Is there any chance you can make Empress Theodore of 9th century AD?
Very good
And I loved the music. Please, can you write the titles?
Thanks
Este canal me parece una joya. Muchas gracias
If Theodora had really looked like this she would have also been my empress 😍
You're so kind. Greetings from your empress.
@@theodorasabbatius9585 A Lady with a sense of humor. :}
@@theodorasabbatius9585Ego Salutem tibi dico Theodora AVGVSTA !
Beautiful was the lesser part. The woman was ruthless on climbing the social ladder and keeping the throne but also had virtues as a state-woman.
Excellent job, as always 🌷🌷🌷
Wow nice Theodora
Damn you are good. Perfect presentations!!!! Watching them all!!
Thank you. Since I've found your work, completely by chance I must admit, this is the face I wanted to see the most. It's pure art.
Now I know why Justinian went to great lengths to have her by his side. And why, after 548, Justinian's reign seems pretty bleak. Losing her must've been devastating for him.
Glad you enjoyed it!
I agree, he never seemed to have gotten over her. It's possible that it was her idea to restore the West to the Empire. So when she died, that took some of the force out of it. She was the classic, "behind every great man stands a great woman" archetype. She greatly strengthened him and his reign. It's a shame she died at the normal age for people of that time, early 50's, had she lived on, they might have accomplished a more complete restoration of the Empire, they had only two main enemies left, the Visigoths in Spain, the weaker ones and the powerful Franks in Gaul/France and modern West Germany, after his victory in Italy.
I love the stories of how she and Justinian tag-teamed in diplomatic maneuvering against the Vandals and the Ostrogoths with Theodora writing "in secret" to the rulers or to key aides that she could do anything with her husband so don't worry about bumping off your brother or cousin the king or queen while he would play the honorable diplomat urging restraint. I've always suspected that on her return to Constantinople from Libya and Egypt she quickly took up with the group of earnest young Eastern conservative reformers around Justinian who were determined to recover Roman glory after Emperor Anastasius I had stablized the economy and built up a huge treasury reserve and so they came to see themselves as fated by God to meet and save the Empire. And of course God wasn't too particular about what they might do to accomplish it. Brilliant woman really. And could be quite terrifying.
One other tale is that she nursed Justinian through bubonic plague. If so, one more reason why he so mourned her and what a loss she was for him and the Empire.
I love to imagine a miniseries "Byzantium" with Tatiana Maslany as Theodora and Robert Downey Jr as Justinian.
Εξαιρετική δουλειά!! Και η μουσική πραγματικά σε μεταφέρει σε εκείνη την εποχή. Αν θα ήταν εύκολο να παραμένουν οι περιγραφές λίγα δευτερόλεπτα παραπάνω.... Οπωσδήποτε πάντως τέλειο αποτέλεσμα, συγχαρητήρια!
Another great job. Love the background music u chose.
Great job! Great artist!
Love your work, I think it will be a fantastic took for the homeschooling parents going forward.
Thank you so much, it's greatly appreciated
Wonderful work !
I think I found the subtitled version. I think this is the most accurate version:
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Beautiful job👏👏👏
This last portrait she looks a lot like Princess Marthe-Louise from Norway, especially when she smiles. The difference is that the Norwegian princess has blonde hair and blue eyes, but the face, the smile, are very similar, in my opinion😊
I love this channel
Amazing! Thank you!
Theodora emanates aristocratic charisma.
I like the background music
What is the album name
Very interesting and worthwhile video.
πολυ καλη δουλεια μπραβο!
My love Theodora
Guy Gavriel Kay made me fall in love with Empress Theodora. He portrayed her beautifully in The Sarantine Mosaic.
I see you are a man of culture as well. Literally my favourite part in the whole book was about Alixana/Theodora, everything is just so perfect.
Outstanding, congratulations! Looking into the eyes of both the Empress and the Eunuch in the mosaic I assumed that his eyes were lighter and her eyes even lighter than his.
Wow, you are a magician man :D. I have a suggestion for you. Fayum portraits and death masks are perfect for this
I think I found the subtitled version. I think this is the most accurate version:
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Hello I just subscribed to your channel astonishing work of the ancient empresses and emperors👍🙌.
I'm surprised this video only has 22,000 views as of April 28, 2021, I expect it to blow up in the coming months. Nice work though, the music really addons on to the narrative.
Theodora ... beautiful, intelligent, strong willed and courageous.
Παναγιώτη, είσαι μεγάλο ταλέντο φίλε μου . Μπράβο σου.
Fantastic!
Hello astonishing work! Where is the music from?
Look at This · Marc Streitenfeld
How excellent! She was so beautiful ❤
Thank you !
Wow! Impressive & wonderfully presented with the music. As my beloved Greek Papa would say: "Bravo!
I think I found the subtitled version. I think this is the most accurate version:
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@@roufamagga4453 Thank you!
@@roufamagga4453 So how many more times are you going to cut and paste this comment? :\
@@michaelcox6773 however I want. This is social media. You can block me if you don't like it
Would love to see Anna Comnena as well. She and Theodora are my two favorite Byzantine era women.
Well done man
Fascinant!!!
Wonderful.I love it. 🤩🤩🤩🤩👍👍👍👍
Great, just great!
She looks like my greek mother XDDD
Extraordinary work as always! I am curious about what other proxy data you used, if any, to recreate her face. The mosaic feels like it gives you an idea of how she looked like, but the more you study it the more ambiguous it can get
Thank you! Cheers!
asombroso la reconstrucciones de esos personajes históricos basados a veces en escasos datos gran trabajo y la música también muy buena
I think I found the subtitled version. I think this is the most accurate version:
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The music behind this makes it seem so real
Very interesting. Very well done.
Thank you very much!
I love the fact that she made everyone that entered the court bow down to her and kiss her feet. She commanded respect, it’s hard to disrespect someone once you’ve been smooching on their feet and toes. She was no one to mess with. She once made a nobleman beg for his life, ask her to please take his estate and his belongings to forgive him for theft. Still not satisfied, she made him beg her to sell his own wife and children into slavery to help pay her empire back. She agreed and actually sold his family into slavery, spared his life, and made him into her own slave. That’s a woman you’d better respect
Excellent job Panagiotis .
Many thanks!
You are a great artist, feelings, sounds, music flow towards your work of pass history, misterioso, as the currents of time pass you bring beauty towards 21 century . This is great for teachers of history will make class interesting for students to learn about history and beautiful people of the pass.
She was such an intelligent, poised lady... Great for the role of empress...
Belo trabalho. Thank you. From Brasil
Theodora era bellísima!!!
Wow amazing ! Could you do Sultan Suleiman , Hurem and Mahidevran?
What's the music called? I see some Roufa Magga thinks it's "Legio Aeterna Victrix" from the film "Ben Hur", but I don't find this track even remotely similar, let alone the same.
Look at This · Marc Streitenfeld
Brilliant
Great video as always. I loved the music. Do you know who is the composer?
Look at This · Marc Streitenfeld
Please do Basil II. No one has recreated him yet
Would be very interesting 🤔!!!
Theodora was so beautiful :O Eunuchs are still mystery, how they looked and sound like
Να είσαι καλά για τα απίστευτα πορτρέτα σου. Η απίστευτη ομορφιά της Θεοδώρας. Την κοίταζα και χαζευα την ομορφιά της και δεν το πίστευα! Συνέχισε το εξαιρετικό σου έργο.
Μας κάνεις υπερήφανους. Μπράβο.
Δημητριος Μαρκου
Αθηνα
αν επιτρεπεται, γιατι σας κανει υπερηφανους?
She was beautiful
so what? do you have any idea whow many people died because of her ?
@@fobouts no mate. Please explain to me.
@@fobouts she wasn't all bad. she even convinced justinian to deal with the nika riots instead of running.
Thanks for letting us see what Theodora probably liked.
Splendida!! 😍
Damm even before the Empire was hellenised,she along with Helen, Eudoxia and Irene were great in their own right.
if you mean Irene of Athens, I dont think you can call her great after blinding (leading to death) her own son just so she can rule..let alone the church canonized her..bluh..
@@christosntapsis1464 Καταδικάζω την πράξη,όμως,πρέπει να θυμόμαστε ότι όσο περισσότερη εξουσία έχουν οι άνθρωποι,τόσο μεγαλύτεροι είναι και οι πειρασμοί στους οποίους εκτείθουν τους εαυτούς τους.Αυτό ισχύει και για τους χριστιανούς και για τους προχριστιανούς προγόνους μας.Η Ειρήνη ήταν αυτή που έδωσε τέλος στην εικονομαχία αποκαθιστώντας έτσι την ενότητα της αυτοκρατορίας,δίνοντας μας την ευκαιρία να επουλώσουμε τις πληγές μας και να αφιερωθούμε στην αντιμετώπιση των εξωτερικών εχθρών.
@@Constantine_Bush Άρα για την εκκλησία είχε μεγαλύτερη αξία το τέλος της εικονομαχιας και όχι η αποτρόπαια δολοφονία του παιδιού της. Και αυτή, και ο Κωνσταντίνος ο μέγας είναι μεγάλα φάουλ.. Δεν γίνεται να αγιοποιουνται άνθρωποι παιδοκτονοι. Αλλά κλασσικά η εκκλησία κοιτάει το δικό της συμφέρον
@@christosntapsis1464 Αυτό σου λέω δεν δύναται να κρίνουμε τους ανθρώπους από μόνο ένα περιστατικό της ζωής τους,αλλά από το σύνολο της.Οι αμαρτωλοί να θυμάσαι ότι πολλές φορές είναι αυτοί που γίνονται οι μεγαλύτεροι άγιοι,η Μαρία η Αιγύπτια ήταν πόρνη και αηθής γυναικά πρωτού μεταννοήσει,ο Άγιος Κυπριανός ήταν ειδωλολάτρης και διέπραττε αηδιαστικές τελετουργίες. πρωτού μετανοήσει,ο βασιλιάς Ναβουχοδονόσορ παρά τις εγκληματικές του ενέργειες,μετανόησε για τον προηγούμενο τρόπο ζωής του και αφιέρωσε τη ζωή του στο Θεό,γι'αυτό έγινε άγιος.Η εκκλησία είναι το σώμα των πιστών κατά τους Πατέρες και κατά την Καινή Διαθήκη.Για εμάς,αξία έχει η μέταννοια και η πραγματική μεταστροφή προς το καλό,η αλλαγή.Αναγνωρίζουμε τις αδυναμίες μας,ότι πάντα θα κάνουμε περισσότερες κακές πράξεις παρά καλές,αλλά πάντα θα προσπαθουμε μέσω του Θεού μας του Ιησού Χριστού να φτάσουμε στην τελειότητα.Ενθυμήσου πως οι μεγαλύτεροι άγιοι μας έλεγαν ότι είναι οι πιο μεγάλοι αμαρτωλοί παρά τα καλά που διέπρατταν για να αυτοταπεινωθούν και να φτάσουν στο μεγαλύτερο βαθμό τελειότητας.
Διαφωνώ για τον Μέγα Κωνσταντίνο γιατί δεν έχουμε βρεί κάποιο επίσημο διάταγμα περί της εκτέλεσης του Κρίσπου.Η μόνη μαρτυρία που σώζεται είναι από εναν βεβιασμένο εναντίον του ειδωλολάτρη,ο οποίος παρά την εμπάθεια του,επιδοκιμάζει τα προτερήματα του.Πιστεύω ότι η πραγματική εκδοχή της εκτέλεσης του Κρίσπου είναι τελείως διαφορετική.Αυτή είναι η άποψη μου βέβαια.Μέχρι να βρεθεί κάποιο επίσημο διάταγμα,δε θα μάθουμε τι πραγματικά έγινε.
@@Constantine_Bush Καταλαβαίνω. Ας συμφωνήσουμε οτι διαφωνούμε 🙂 δέχομαι κ σέβομαι την άποψη σου, απλά απλά σαν άτομο που δεν βλέπω την εκκλησία ως θεσμό, το βλέπω διαφορετικά. Όπως κ να χει, είμαστε κ off topic στο βίντεο χάχα να σαι καλά για την συζήτηση!
Kinda cutie of Empress Theodora. Also, eunuch looks like based guys from my high school I used to chill with.
What about the bust of Princess Kassandra of Troy?? Id love to see what she'd look like today.
Amazing
St. John looks good!
A PESAR DE SU ORÍGEN FUE UNA EMPERATRIZ EXTRAORDINARIA
Yathink people read that fast? Where's the pause button!
Goddess Athena and Helen of sparta please I want them..
no wonder Justinian fell in love immediately when he saw Theodora. She is gorgeous
Saint Theodora, pray for us!
Amaizing. Woww tears in my eyies.. The mainkind. And religion. And Ego.
Wow. Your reconstruction is of a VERY beautiful woman. A woman strong inside and beautiful on the outside, a great force to reakon with.
I think the Byzantines’ eyes 👀 were larger than average. Their depictions aren’t just an exaggerated mosaic style.
Se gli occhi erano veramente così lontani dal centro del naso, era d'etnia greca senz'altro. Il viso del mosaico, però, mi pare più lungo e il colore degli occhi tendente al verde o nocciola.
(If the eyes were really that far from the center of the nose, she was certainly of Greek ethnicity. The face of the mosaic, however, seems to be longer and the color of the eyes tending towards green or hazel).
Thoedora and Isabell La Catolica, amongst the most influential women in History .....
Pretty much everything that everyone has said here is true!!!! Once again you've outdone your self....just brilliant 👏 👌 👍
PLEASE do the reconstruction of IRENE!
I'm not so sure of Theodora's face, I think it is much longer with a possible uni-brow?
if I got it write you basically base the faces on different sources that describe them more or less physically?
Wow! All Meditteranean, Roman, Jewish and Slavic people are the most beautiful ones.
Very beautiful 👋 👋 👋
What is the music you used from? Which film? It's nagging me so badly to not remember
Are these inverted. Concerning the Eunuchs eyes. The painting show that the left eye is larger than the right eye. Then in the rendering it's flipped. I'm really perplexed how a face of such detail can be gleaned from a mosaic like this. The mosaic has full bushy eyebrows, and the rendering has thin arced eye brows. And other things I see that I won't go into. Are you using poetic license, to fill in the blanks? By no means am I a hater, I'm fascinated. That is why I think it would be interesting to find a sculpture of someone living to day who is actually alive and try this method on the sculpture to see how close it truly resembles the person.
0:51 WOW Bravo re Panagioti Tremendous expansion of imagination You should be a photographer also
I think I found the subtitled version. I think this is the most accurate version:
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@@roufamagga4453 I think oti tou edoses kai katalave proi proi.
That's Jackie Chan, man!
But really, it is a good bite of the meal of history!