The Byzantine Empire Wasn’t Byzantine at All, It Was Christian Roman, And It Thrived Over 1000 Years
Livy, the Roman historian that lived around the time of Christ, wrote, ‘I do honestly believe that no country has ever been greater or purer than ours, or richer in good citizens and noble deeds’ (Early History 30). It is therefore lamentable that in the common mind this most glorious empire should be endowed with an end so ignoble and unworthy of mention.
The Byzantine Empire Wasn’t Byzantine at All, It Was Christian Roman, And It Thrived Over 1000 Years