Wednesday 27 November 2013

Iconoclasts, Or Not

Byzantium: A Tale of Three Cities begins at 9pm on BBC Four next Thursday, 5th December. Ed West and I have been tweeting in anticipation, although of course it must have been planned for years and it has very visibly taken years to make.

But, while one does not wish to be churlish, the BBC rightly does plenty on Classical Antiquity, and it recently concluded a three-part terrestrial television series on and called The Ottomans. That is two of the three cities already taken care of.

This series is welcome. It will doubtless be excellent as a study of its subject. But that subject, and its title, ought to have been The Byzantines.

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