Witnessing 'The Fall' of Rome and the reconquest by Belisarius. #shorts

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[pipebomber]

The people of the city of rome actually welcomed belisarius and volunteered to fight the goths.

[TetsuShima]

Belisarius after conquering Rome: "I can't believe we've just made Rome roman again. It's taken many years, but we've finally made it!"
Narses: "Yeah...By the way, I don't know why, but I think we missed something"
Belisarius: "It's surely just your eunuch imagination...."

*Meanwhile, in Campania*
72-year-old Romulus Augustus: "Cannot wait for my brothers from the East to come in order to ask me to be Emperor again!" 😊

[TetsuShima]

*Fun fact:* Speaking of the reconquest of Rome, there is a 1968 German-Italian epic film about that event called "The Last Roman". The parodic way in which the movie depicts the members of the Byzantine faction is quite hilarious: Justinian (played by Orson Welles) is a religious fanatic who never takes his eyes off plans to build monuments to Christ, Theodora is basically a Messalina-type nymphomaniac, Belisarius is the typical grumpy old man who yells at children who step in his garden and Narses is literally a dwarf. It's a pretty good film, if you ask me

[coltonsupergame]

In Justinian’s defense Justinian’s first language was Latin and is considered one of the last Roman emperors to speak Latin.

[TaeSunWoo]

Belisarius: “alright, who’s ready for full Empire, round 2?”

[MyViolador]

Belisarius: so anyways I started reconquering

[TheDirtysouthfan]

The Latin-Greek Split wasn’t a clean West East line. The line starts irl around Thrace and much of the ERE in the Balkans was primarily Latin speaking. Latin was still spoken in the ERE, in fact the legendary Emperor Heraclius spoke Latin.

[dusk]

Dynamic and priceless historical moments!

[nazeem]

Liberius comes to mind (praetorian prefect). He was a child when rome fell but probably grew up in Liguria. He was appointed governor of gaul under theodoric but later defected to east rome after a succesion dispute. He even participated in the gothic war in Its late stages and was later appointed to egypt.

[garrettfuhrman]

Given the effects of the Eastern Roman reconquest, I’d imagine they’d be pretty pissed seeing Belisarius’ coming back to Italy so many times to restart the Gothic War.

Plus Theodoric the Great was a pretty impressive and lenient ruler, and Ostrogothic Italy was relatively prosperous under his rule. They’d probably prefer the Goths by the second Reconquest.

[historicalbrickfilms]

Exactly what I've been thinking when I learned that the Eastern Roman army reqonquor Rome

[Ajaylix]

You're forgetting. It was a back and forth struggle for Rome. So it must've been very tiring to see different armies from factions as well as getting sick and confused of who actually is in charge for a bit

[davidbalogun]

The eastern empire was not considered a Greek state at all and large parts of its population (including Belisarius himself) were still native Latin speakers. It would be like someone in the 4th century saying Constantine and Diocletian weren't Roman cause they were from places east of Italy. Roman didn't mean from the city specifically and hadn't meant that in centuries, it wasn't even about being ethically Italian or descended from them. It was a political status. If you were born a Roman citizen you were Roman no matter where you were from or what language you spoke (with some exceptions)

[zanzao-ps]

Well by the times of belisarius the differences between east and west still weren't as deep as we may think. Or at least they weren't any deeper than at the times of the fall of western Rome. Most historians agree that the ERE really started losing its roman core (culturally) in the 8th century

[vitanus]

Peasants living under Ostrogothic rule *Peace, enough food on the table, family happy & healthy, what a time to be alive*

Peasant after 20 years of constant warfare *War after war, femine and starvation, Wife and two children dead, my last son joined the army, at least it cant get worse anymore.*

*Langobards invading Italy 10 years later*

[PAPITO_]

He came into an empire already destroyed from within. He just took over.

[GermanicChieftan]

Great video! Was just thinking the same thing the other day

[obobobobobi]

Belisarius was the liberator because he was able to take Rome with a small army relying a lot on the locals. The end

[ClaireFrancePerezWonderer]

Wasn't it in 536 AD that the Sun was blotted out by cataclysmic events?

[sulajkovski]

The Eastern Roman Empire was Roman not Greek, and they even called their language Roman not Greek. Only foreigners called them Greek.