Separately, I know women and gay men who are going to take huge issue with the reference to the “passive” participant in sex…
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Exactly. The seat of the Roman Empire went to Byzantium. That doesn’t make them ethnically Roman, but that isn’t the point.
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My 2 cents on the Roman v Byzantine Empire subject, not as a student of any of this but as someone married to someone with degrees in Ancient History and strong views on it: The Byzantine Empire was a very different animal to the Roman Empire and THEY ARE THEREFORE DIFFERENT.
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My final thought on this oped: It glosses over the fairly obvious but important point that looking down in darker skinned people was often about class. If you worked out in the fields or the desert or wherever, you were probably going to get tan. If you were rich, you were paler.
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Cry Havoc!!
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Of course it was. Do people disagree with that?
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Can't be a "Roman" empire if your capital isn't Rome...and if Rome isn't even under your control.
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The pre-Latin Empire state was the Roman Empire. The post latin empire state was not
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If your husband is knowledgeable of this era he would tell you that the idea of “Byzantine” is an anachronism. No one at the time the capital was moved from Rome to Constantinople would have considered themselves anything other than Romanus. They would have looked at you funny...
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...if you had called them a Byzantine. They would have responded “What did you call me?”. Byzantine was a 16th century nomenclature projected back onto this period by German writers. The fact is that the easterners would have seen themselves just as much as part of the...
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