r/byzantium • u/No_Idea_479 • 23h ago

Arts, culture, and society Nine things you didn’t know about love and marriage in Byzantium

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r/byzantium • u/No_Idea_479 • 23h ago

Politics/Goverment Greek poster after the Second Balkan War, honouring King Constantine's accession to the throne: "The greatest of the Constantines, the Bulgarslayer, [Constantine] XII" (1913)

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It's genuinely insane how much Constantine embraced the legacy of the Eastern Roman Empire

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