Byzantium: The Lost Empire / Forever and Ever / Ep.4

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00:01This is the story of the ending

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00:53The last years

00:54of the Empire of Byzantium

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undefined:undefinedfrom a burning forest parks

01:24that lit the Western World.

01:49I'm standing high above the Golden Horn

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undefined:undefinedfrom Iceland to China.

02:17Only the angels in heaven

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undefined:undefinedof Byzantium

02:39when the Crusaders had

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undefined:undefinedprepared to face its destiny.

03:01The emperors moved their palace here

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undefined:undefinedwere executed or blinded

03:20in terrifying family feuds.

03:34Just like the emperors, Jesus, Mary

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undefined:undefinedin times of siege.

04:08St. Savior's was Byzantium's

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undefined:undefinedof the death of a nation.

04:35The imperial crown was stored, here

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undefined:undefinedfrom his holy city.

05:12Above the door, in shining gold an image

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undefined:undefinedwere a very ancient people,

05:42the living remnants of the world

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undefined:undefinedwas to wait and pray and silently endure.

06:14His church was a meditation on eternity.

06:23Theodore's artists have given us one

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undefined:undefinedin the middle, resplendent, white.

06:43He's burst through the gates of hell

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undefined:undefinedupon this resurrection.

07:00Not from earthly empires,

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undefined:undefinedthat the world came,

07:21had a beginning, will come to an end.

07:24So when the emperor went onto

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undefined:undefinedstatues of the ancient emperors would

07:49come alive and drive the invaders

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undefined:undefineddescending into ruin.

08:16By the 1400s, many of Byzantium's

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undefined:undefinedclose to the ruins of ancient Sparta,

08:36a town called Mistra.

08:41A miniature kingdom ruled by the

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undefined:undefinedis how small it is, how tiny, how human.

09:08Everything, here, is democratic.

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undefined:undefinedfrom church to church.

09:31But, the hub of Mistra's life

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undefined:undefinedthe women were beautiful

09:56and the stones

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undefined:undefinedof Constantinople,

10:16and future cardinals

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undefined:undefinednobleman. Not much left of the garden,

10:41just a few wild herbs, a little spinach.

10:48But, you know, Plethon must have lived

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undefined:undefinedmerchant classes,

11:03they would have built a smaller house.

11:05But this, this is grand.

11:07Look at the fireplace; great big flue

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undefined:undefineda big pot on it,

11:24and two great stones underneath.

11:26Everything was cooked there.

11:28If they wanted to roast anything

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undefined:undefinedthat people wanted.

11:47This was a very simple life, because

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undefined:undefinedlooking out over the valley of Sparta,

12:15what would he have done?

12:16Well, he scribbled letters to the Duke.

12:18Plethon was very worried

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undefined:undefinedbut he was a magnetic character.

12:33People loved him.

12:34Like all professors,

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undefined:undefinedof Constantinople, St. Sofia.

13:17There's not much left, here, now,

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undefined:undefinedof the last Emperors of Byzantium.

13:34But, the real treasure is, here,

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undefined:undefinedit's a whole magical stone of Byzantium.

13:57When this church was built, it hadn't

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undefined:undefinedwhere the last Emperor of Byzantium

14:17was crowned, Constantine Palaiologos.

14:20The last ruler of Mistra was crowned,

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undefined:undefinedof Central Asia.

15:10Two centuries later, the Islamic armies

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undefined:undefinedof modern Greece and Turkey,

15:31the city of Edirne,

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16:02In sultan Mehmet's time, there were

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undefined:undefinedchildren here for a good education.

16:20Old Plethon came here, as a young man.

16:22Here it was he met Persian

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undefined:undefinedpoor old Empire of Byzantium.

16:45It was also clear that the ancient city

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undefined:undefinedsailed out of Constantinople

17:17in a last attempt to beg aid

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undefined:undefinedwith the Church of Rome.

17:51The churches of the East and West,

17:53Greek and Latin, were split apart

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18:18in Greece, as had many of his pupils.

18:28The most extraordinary thing about this

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18:40all had their representatives

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undefined:undefinedin the first weeks of negotiations.

19:08The emperor, and his retinue,

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19:30And, here, too, they were memorialized

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undefined:undefinedfrom Mistra, Emperor of Byzantium,

19:53come to the West to seek aid.

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undefined:undefinedthe Florentine weavers liked it;

20:14the painters liked it.

20:15This was a man whose dress and demeanor

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undefined:undefinedfull force of the divine right of kings.

20:43See, in the West,

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undefined:undefinedthat seeped down, and down,

20:57and down away from the man who, now,

20:59was like only at the top

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undefined:undefinedall on their horses,

21:18this is entirely reversed. I mean,

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undefined:undefinedthe lords of earth and heaven.

21:43Most of the Byzantines, though,

21:45were insulted at the very idea

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undefined:undefinedthe Emperor John,

22:09still desperate for military aid,

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undefined:undefinedbetween two churches,

22:37between the Pope of Rome,

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undefined:undefinedThe Byzantines were here.

22:59These weren't the old school teachers

23:01that rich Florentines

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undefined:undefinedwas Plethon.

23:16He taught practically all the people

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undefined:undefinedthe union with Rome caused riots.

23:42Italian priests were insulted

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undefined:undefinedthe theologian, preached that the union

24:14with Rome would bring down the wrath

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undefined:undefineddangerous and most impatient neighbor.

24:58In April 1452, there was a huge row

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undefined:undefinedattack upon the city.

25:21And now,

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undefined:undefinedthat I am very different

25:36from my father, that my resolution

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undefined:undefinedand treaties with me,

26:17and in closing the gates of my city,

26:19I tell you, I will defend my people

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undefined:undefinedby Constantine.

26:48After all, the Ottomans and Byzantines

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undefined:undefined"I shall take your city,"

27:01he tells Constantine,

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undefined:undefinedI shall slay you and all your nobles.

27:17I shall slaughter the inhabitants of

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undefined:undefinednor will I evacuate.

27:39You may have anything but the city.

27:41For the city,

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undefined:undefined"the capital of the ancient Romans,

28:03the summit of power and glory,

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undefined:undefinedmedieval commander to his troops

28:21before the final assault.

28:22And they roared in agreement.

28:24"There is but one God," they said,

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undefined:undefinedit was said,

29:13bore down from Edirne to pulverize

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undefined:undefinedthe holy icon of the virgin,

29:37the city's sacred shield, just as they

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undefined:undefinedrepair with rocks and stones,

30:03and the Empress, too, with her ladies.

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undefined:undefinedfor a whole day, before the last assault.

30:38He gave the emperor time to walk

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undefined:undefinedand was given the last rites.

30:59Then, he walked back to the palace,

31:02and there he made a speech

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undefined:undefinedthe ancient Romans, were terrified

31:19when Hannibal's elephants had charged

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undefined:undefinedupon their side.

31:38It was those beliefs of mind

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undefined:undefinedand there he died, the ruler of Rome,

31:58the king of Christendom

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undefined:undefinedby the city gates.

32:19"The city is taken," he's supposed

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undefined:undefinedwas toppled from his horse

32:37and cried to God Almighty, the Creator

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undefined:undefinedsultan Mehmet found whole districts

33:07of the sacred city derelict and abandoned

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undefined:undefinedto be a building made for God.

33:38So, the church of St. Sofia,

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undefined:undefinedpeoples came to haunt its fabled stones.

34:10Legend tells that Mehmet

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undefined:undefinedthe tomb of Constantine the Great,

34:35the founder of Byzantium,

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undefined:undefinedand sympathetic man,

35:00still wondered at this ancient, ruined

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undefined:undefinedancient city?" the sultan asked him.

35:32And what, exactly, was their faith?

35:37Like most of the inhabitants

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undefined:undefinedbecause i was born in this city.

35:56But, I prefer, simply,

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undefined:undefinedwith the old boy's answer

36:23to give the penniless church a bag of

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undefined:undefinedan Islamic public school.

37:07One Zarich became a very famous preacher

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undefined:undefinedthe sarcophagi,

37:23of the last kings of Byzantium.

37:25John of Florence was buried here,

37:27his brother, their queens, these

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undefined:undefinedlaid, after the crucifixion.

37:48They said you could still see Mary's

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undefined:undefinedfrom the church whose golden panels

38:16now stand on the high altar of St.

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undefined:undefineda memory of lmperial Byzantium.

38:58There are still descendants

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undefined:undefinedancient church, is guaranteed

39:29by the proclamations of ancient sultans

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undefined:undefinedin their holy city with their own faith.

40:15Scattered, too, from myriads

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undefined:undefinedin the ancient palace of Byzantium.

40:59Endowed with lands and properties,

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undefined:undefinedwas converted to Islam and revived.

41:26Under Turkish rule, Constantinople

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undefined:undefinedConstantinople, a radical young bishop,

41:47called Bessario, Plethon's most

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undefined:undefinedwith Italian friends,

42:03chic young men of the Renaissance,

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42:28memory of old Byzantium.

42:33Bessario spent his life making

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undefined:undefinedwho he'd gathered around him,

42:57some were exiled Byzantines,

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undefined:undefinedto find people,

43:13because this was

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undefined:undefinedthe coolest place on the planet.

43:30So, you gotta think, perhaps,

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undefined:undefinedflowers in June, of that year.

43:54Bessario wrote a letter,

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undefined:undefinedto be seen in libraries, and museums.

44:16Above all, Bessario preserved the dream.

44:21He gathered the pure air of Mistra,

44:23the ideals of Constantinople, the energy

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undefined:undefinedlibrary the world has ever seen.

44:52A collection whose fragments are still

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undefined:undefinedof Homer's lliad,

45:21made by a refugee from Mistra.

45:26And, in the front

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undefined:undefinedand a myriad of other texts.

45:51And they'd seen nothing

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46:21that inspired Columbus to sail West

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undefined:undefinedin the most ancient East.

46:49A vision that still fills the world, today.

46:53A vision that exiled Byzantine

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undefined:undefinedByzantium pressing

47:22through the pearly gates.

47:28On the right, hell.

47:29The Turks and everybody else, all the

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undefined:undefinedand uses every day.

47:54And, if there's nothing there

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undefined:undefinedsix thousand years ago in ancient Uru and

48:20Mesopotamia searched for.

48:23To him, the elixir of life

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undefined:undefinedthe very scroll of time, itself,

48:38the lord of the universe.

48:44The heart of the atom, heaven's order

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undefined:undefinedof old byzantium, is called Istanbul,

49:19an old Byzantine phrase

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undefined:undefinedwasn't really brought about

49:47by the wicked West or the terrible Turk.

49:51Things pass, as the poet said.

49:54If the cowboys had never shot the Indians,

49:56the Great Plains would not be filled with

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undefined:undefinedtoo as a flash of silver,

50:19as a dream of jewels, as an image

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undefined:undefinedmuch beloved, caressing a baby child.

50:41And think of Byzantium, too,

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undefined:undefinedlisten to the city's fading sounds.

51:09Visit, in your mind, its golden images

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