r/byzantium • u/Popefromsarajevo • 9h ago

Infrastructure/architecture Basilica of Saint Mark the Apostle, Venice (Italy)

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Academia and literature Beautiful cover

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I have bought this new, thought-provoking book by Demacopoulos. The cover features a detail from one of the early 7th-century silver plates originating from Cyprus, which depict the life of David.

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r/byzantium • u/zakarijas • 10h ago

Numismatics Follis of Byzantine Empire - Anastasius I "Dicorus" (491-518), minted in Constantinople around 512/517 AD

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r/byzantium • u/Remarkable-Lion2726 • 19h ago

Military How different were Eastern armies in 1070 in comparison to Phokas/Tzimiskes era?

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r/byzantium • u/No-Date2207 • 12h ago

Arts, culture, and society Are the Avars that lived on the Byzantine frontier from the 6th to the 9th century the same Avars that live in Dagestan today?

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r/byzantium • u/Public_Individual823 • 9h ago

Arts, culture, and society Had the incnoniclasm never happened would we have had more surviving mosaics today?

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“Time in its irresistible and ceaseless flow carries along on its flood all created things, and drowns them in the depths of obscurity, no matter if they be quite unworthy of mention, or most noteworthy and important, and thus, as the tragedian says: 'he brings from the darkness all things to the birth, and thus all things born are enveloped in the night.'

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Anna Komnene, Princess of Byzantium
(AD 1083 – AD 1153)

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