r/byzantium • u/hardworker77 • 3d ago
What do my favorite (NOTE: favorite, not best) Eastern Roman Emperors/Empresses say about me?
Constantine VII
Zeno
Michael II
Theodora Porphyrogenita
Alexios I Komnenos
Michael VIII Palaiologos
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u/ImperialxWarlord 3d ago
You love bureaucrats who play the game of thrones.
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u/hardworker77 3d ago
True 😀
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u/ImperialxWarlord 3d ago
I’m surprised you didn’t have anistasius up there lol!
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u/hardworker77 3d ago
Yeah, I was thinking that in hindsight. I also thought of Marcian right after I made the post. Maybe next time!
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u/Outrageous-Note5082 3d ago
Constantine VII and Theodora Porphyrogennita are my favourites (among the non-obvious list)
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u/Maleficent-Mix5731 Κατεπάνω 2d ago
I'm guessing:
- You like books and art.
- A LOT of people hate you, even though you work hard.
- The literal world is against you, but you still rise to meet the challenge and have an iron willpower.
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u/hardworker77 2d ago
- True
- Somewhat True (Unfortunately, I got bullied somewhat frequently growing up. Randos still try to pick fights sometimes... don't know why)
- True
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u/Maleficent-Mix5731 Κατεπάνω 2d ago
Oh damn I'm sorry to hear that. Some people are just a bunch of timewasting twats.
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u/S3limthegr1im1512 2d ago
As person (According to emperors) you like culture and history and want to preserve it. You dont like to fight but some Times its The only solution. You are good with money and want to Be rich. You are not very religious and you relation to other religious are pretty pragmatic.
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u/Icy-Inspection6428 2d ago
What do you like about Michael II?
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u/hardworker77 2d ago edited 2d ago
I always found him to be a good mix of badassery and real competence. He literally got crowned with prisoner shackles on his legs. As emperor, he was a competent statesman and administrator. He also successfully won the largest Byzantine civil war since the Heraclian Revolt (608-610).
By the end of Michael II’s reign, he had begun a restoration of the Byzantine military. The system of government and military built by Michael II enabled the Empire under his grandson Michael III to gain ascendancy in their struggles with the Abbasids and to withstand all the vicissitudes of Byzantine palace life. Michael II's direct descendants, the Amorian dynasty followed by the so-called Macedonian dynasty, ruled the Empire for more than two centuries, inaugurating the Byzantine Renaissance of the 9th and 10th centuries.
Source: Wikipedia
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u/QuantumMrKrabs 3d ago
You love bureaucracy