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Historian

Anthony Kaldellis

Professor of Classics at the University of Chicago specializing in the Roman and Byzantine empires. Kaldellis is a leading scholar arguing for the continuity of the Byzantine Empire as fundamentally Roman, challenging Western historiography that treats it as a separate medieval civilization.

Known For

Byzantine history and Eastern Roman continuityReframing Byzantine civilization as RomanEconomic and institutional history of empires

Canon

Books

The New Roman Empire
Streams of Gold

Episodes