Hiberniensis (July 23, 2008 at 6:58 am)

What we now call the 'Byzantine Empire' is so fascinating. It wasn't just the heir to the Roman Empire, it *was* the Roman Empire, albeit much shrunken and having undergone inevitable historical development.

N0vaR0ma (July 14, 2008 at 3:07 pm)

:))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))00

Hellas4Live (June 19, 2008 at 12:14 pm)

you all forget maybe you`re right that the byzantines called themselves romans but the reason is, to call themselve a hellene you where a pagan!! hellene =pagan in the medieval!!!and by the way even today we have a second name except for greek.we call ourselves romios.that means the medieval greeks were romans, as the citizensship and ethnicily greeks ;))sry for my bad englisch :)

peymaania (May 24, 2008 at 6:02 am)

This program would be so much better with a different Host, he really detracts from it.

Titus0011 (May 16, 2008 at 8:16 am)

Byzantine Empire= Eastern Roman empire. The people in that empire called themselves Romans.

TheCinephile (April 16, 2008 at 11:02 pm)

God Peter Weller is really doing his best to ruin the tone... Using the idiom 'burr in the saddle' doesn't quite evoke the magnitude of the Hun invasions...

mctolisCORFU (March 17, 2008 at 6:01 pm)

Engineering an Empire - The Byzantine Greeks

kev3d (January 18, 2008 at 8:10 am)

You think thats bad, watch "The Conqueror" with John Wayne playing....Ghengis Khan.

nefeligeretisdfwsdf (December 30, 2007 at 11:06 pm)

Anatolia comes from the word anatoli which means (sun rise or east in Greek) and Asia minor (together with the Aegean islands) is the birth place of the Ionian race (most of the famous Greeks we know come from these areas). In any case the whole mediteranian basin was called the "Greek part" of the Roman empire and besides a change in administration nothing much changed in the lives of the Greeks during the Roman times (unlike west Europe).

Spartan307 (December 28, 2007 at 7:01 pm)

I ment the Southern Balkans somewhere there.