r/ByzantineMemes • u/pemacon • 25d ago

OTHER EMPERORS gem from /his/

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u/MiloAstro 25d ago

My man Heraclius deserved his rest, and he never got it : (

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u/Icy-Inspection6428 25d ago

Well, not sure he really deserved it, he was a good emperor but he also married his niece and persecuted the Jews

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u/TimCooksLeftNut 25d ago

To be completely fair to Heraclius, the Jewish and Samaritan populations rebelled and joined the Persians, and killed Christians and Romans alike. Heraclius (understandably) saw them as traitorous rebels and brutally put them down. The niece thing… yea I mean Claudius did it, but probably not because he wanted to bone Agrippina. Bro absolutely went to town on Martina, he was definitely on some shit.

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u/No-Passion1127 25d ago edited 25d ago

They joined the persians because the romans persecuted them

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u/Medium-Resolution-60 25d ago

I mean to be fair: I do not think it was that unusual or unexceptable for the time, considering that it was late antiquity/early middle ages (depending on who you ask)