I know on the summer league roster he's played pretty well. I figure with his size and shooting ability he has a place in the league somewhere.
I also know you guys have another BSU product on the roster in Derrick Alston but I don't think he's gotten much burn this summer.
Anyways thank you for any insight you can provide. I'm rooting for Jessup!
After previously writing that my local Barnes & Noble's did not carry many titles about Byzantium, today while visiting, I found that they had a book I had never heard of before: Mark Whitby's The Wars of Justinian I. Now if they stocked Spyros Theoharis and Chrysa Sakel's Theophano: A Byzantine Tale...
For those out of the loop, you can check out my post here, 539 AD, the year before Khosrow I initiates his invasion. He is seen receiving the envoys of Gothic and Roman armenians
With that, i return to my previous narrative, In late 539 or early 540, Emperor Justinian perceiving Khosrowβs desire for war, sent him a letter through a man named Anastasios. Not to be confused with Emperor Anastasios.
Justinian to Khosrow I,
βIt is the mark of men of discretion and of those
who practice their religion, when causes of war arise, especially against men who are their true friends, to exert all their power to prevent them; but it belongs to foolish men and those who, in their lives, make light of religion to devise occasions for war and turmoil that have no real existence.
To destroy peace and initiate war is not a difficult matter, as the nature of things is to make the most wicked activities easy for the most dishonorable men. But when they have brought about war according to their intention, to return again to peace is for men, I think, not easy.
You charge me with writing letters that were in fact not written with any dark purpose and you are eager to interpret them arbitrarily, not in the sense in which we intended them when we wrote them but in a way that will be of advantage to you in your eagerness to carry out your plans behind a smoke screen.
But for us it is possible to point out that your al-Mundhir recently overran our land and performed outrageous deeds in a time of peace, capturing towns, seizing property, massacring and enslaving a great multitude of men, concerning which it is not your part to accuse us but to defend yourself.
For the crimes of those who have done wrong are made manifest to their neighbors by their acts, not their thoughts. Even with things as they are, we have still decided to hold to peace, but we hear that in your eagerness to make war upon the Romans you are fabricating accusations that do not bear on us at all.
Naturally enough, for those who are eager to preserve the present order of things reject even those accusations against their friends that are most compelling, yet those who dislike the institution of friendship are drawn even to pretexts that do not exist. But this would not be becoming even to ordinary men, much less t
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Hi all!
I know that Justinian I isn't known as a soldier-emperor like other Byzantine monarchs, but if I'm not mistaken he had served in his early life in the Excubitors (or the Scholae Palatinae, correct me if I'm wrong). Do we know or can we safely assume anything about this part of his life?
Adding to that, are we aware of any other instances where Justinian had, even symbolically, taken command or so much as picked up a sword?
From what Ive read, it seens that north africa was stable for a good while but the italian conquest left italy desolate and essentially worthless, in addition to the plague killing a third of the romans. Is that accurate or was it even a bad idea to go to north africa? Id appreciate books/sources about it too
Justinian the Great was a Roman/Byzantine Emperor from 527 to 565, one of the most famous Roman Emperors and probably the most well-known Eastern Roman Emperor. His well-earned reputation is due to his eventful life, richly described in Procopius' accounts, and his famous portrait mosaic in the Basilica of San Vitale, Ravenna.
His rule was marked my many momentous events, like the Nika riots, the making of the Corpus Juris Civilis (the basis for Civil Law applied in continental Europe and beyond), the reconquest of North Africa (meaning modern Tunisia, eastern Algeria and western Libya aka Tripolitania), the Gothic wars that devastated Italy, the seeding of the Lombardic control of that same peninsula, the Battle of Dara, the Sack of Antioch in 540 and, perhaps more important, but completely beyond his control, the Justinianic Plague, the first pandemic of Yersinia pestis.
As huge Byzaboo/Byzantophile, I'm glad he's been chosen to represent this sub, but I have to ask why, among all the other historical figures, has he been chosen?
Other than civilization.
Hey, hi, hello! I've been looking into imagery from the Byzantine Empire recently. I was wondering if there were symbols, sigils, or imagery that were unique to Justinian I? I've been poking around myself for answers. Figure I might as well throw a hail mary for more reliable info.
TIA!
