Brownworth laments that Western history marks 476 and Romulus Augustulus as the end of Rome, completely ignoring the Byzantine continuation. He argues this is a fundamental distortion: the Roman Empire did not fall in 476, and the last Roman Emperor was not a sad little boy but the heroic Constantine XI in 1453.
Also known as: Western Roman Empire
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Episode 17 (4 mentions)
Brownworth laments that Western history marks 476 and Romulus Augustulus as the end of Rome, completely ignoring the Byzantine continuation. He argues this is a fundamental distortion: the Roman Empire did not fall in 476, and the last Roman Emperor was not a sad little boy but the heroic Constantine XI in 1453.
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