One Empire, Many Names: Reading “Byzantium” with Anthony Kaldellis

Update: 2024-10-22

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We are delighted to speak with Anthony Kaldellis about ‘Byzantium’, fabled empire full of Greek-speaking Romans which never fell until the fifteenth century, and which plays an outsize role in the history of western esotericism. Come for the historiographical debates about the term ‘Byzantine’, stay for the ‘Byzantine’ court astrology.

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One Empire, Many Names: Reading “Byzantium” with Anthony Kaldellis

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One Empire, Many Names: Reading “Byzantium” with Anthony Kaldellis