The History of Byzantium

I started listening to history podcasts almost a year ago and amongst all the podcasts I listened to, The History of Bizantyum is on the podium (together with The History of the World Podcast and The History of Rome). However Robin’s podcast gets the first prize as a great surprise: I knew almost nothing about the Eastern Roman Empire and its history is absolutely mind-blowing. The level of research for this podcast is superb. The balanced tone and the constant perspective of events makes it worthy of the highest praises. And although there are centuries more interesting that others, I can’t thank enough that this podcast exists. And I don’t believe that something better than this podcast format could exist to tell this empire’s history. I’m sad that I’ve reached the last episode and I have to wait who knows how many years until Robin reaches the end of the empire and this podcast. But for sure I won’t miss an episode!

Quite the display of intelligence and erudition!

I came across this podcast while translating a Greek novel strongly related with the history of Byzantium. Although this history is part of the Greek school curriculum and I had read additional books on this topic, I found the podcast extremely informative, nicely articulated and very plaisant to listen.

Thank you for your great work !