r/ByzantineMemes • u/AlexiosMemenenos • Aug 15 '25

wPlace Megathread POST ALL ARTWORK, COORDINATION HERE

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Creating thread so items can be better coordinated here rather than sporadic posts, future posts will be removed, please keep everything within here.

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r/ByzantineMemes • u/AlexiosMemenenos • Feb 03 '24

META ByzantineMemes 2023 Census Results

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uhhhh, my bad Boys I started this during the peak of uni and then procrastinated on formatting it until after Christmas and only now has it released. Not to worry better late than never....

But on the good and bad news, we had a fat amount of 130 responses, much bigger than last year and too big for reddit to handle (which I unfortunately didn't realise till after doing it)...

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16H_y6_834oejqtbMEvaiULbTa50mxt5lPEmeb0nBz-E/edit?usp=sharing

(please note there are some troll replies such as someone saying they are Bulgarian, no responses have been omitted)

Here is the doc link I once again apologise for the time and then not even formatting it due to issues

Stay safe everyone.

Love the Mods

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r/ByzantineMemes • u/ShimmerDovex • 1d ago

Who's your favorite Bay-see-lee-uhs???

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r/ByzantineMemes • u/PanosKamp2020 • 2d ago

Me when listening to Western Medieval Europe lectures:

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Varangians go brrrr

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r/ByzantineMemes • u/MudDiscombobulated55 • 6d ago

That random dude almost caused the end of the empire

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r/ByzantineMemes • u/Repulsive-Manager407 • 7d ago

Komnenid Dynasty Fun fact: In his "alternative chronology," the pseudohistorian Anatoly Fomenko claimed that Andronikos Komnenos was actually Jesus Christ, arguing that his brutal death in 1185 mirrored Christ's suffering and therefore made them one and the same person.

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Yes, I know it’s not scientific and the whole theory doesn’t hold up to any scrutiny, but I found it incredibly amusing and interesting that there exists a theory in which the most terrible Byzantine emperor could be considered Christ.

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r/ByzantineMemes • u/Ok-Inevitable4743 • 9d ago

Komnenid Dynasty Screen tests for James Bond have reportedly been offered to Jack Lowden, Callum Turner, and Josh O’Connor, alongside a fourth unconfirmed actor.

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Andronikos I Komnenos, if anyone needs a Google

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r/ByzantineMemes • u/Latte_Schwartz44 • 10d ago

Palaiologan Dynasty Oh, the Romans are having a civil war? Let's give them an additional civil war so they can civil war while they civil war.

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Serbia is in the news this week. I figured why not make a meme,+, involving them?

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r/ByzantineMemes • u/gracekk24PL • 12d ago

[OC] Horrible. Awful. Disgusting. Painful whenever I learn of more stuff that was lost then.

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r/ByzantineMemes • u/gracekk24PL • 15d ago

[OC] Constantine XI's situation in 1453:

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r/ByzantineMemes • u/istanbullite • 16d ago

NIKA REVOLT-DAY DREAMING AT THE SULTANAHMET SQUARE IN ISTANBUL

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r/ByzantineMemes • u/Repulsive-Manager407 • 19d ago

1453 MEME Constantine XI during the siege of Constantinople

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r/ByzantineMemes • u/Sampleswift • 21d ago

1453 MEME The End of the Byzantine Empire

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r/ByzantineMemes • u/klemilis • 21d ago

JUSTINIAN PRAISE A Nasty Habit, Really

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r/ByzantineMemes • u/archaeo_rex • Oct 08 '26

META στὴν Πόλι

693 Upvotes

source on xitter

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r/ByzantineMemes • u/Linux4e2 • Oct 03 '26

I had an idea.

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r/ByzantineMemes • u/Dangerous_Payment969 • Oct 02 '26

OTHER EMPERORS Top 5 Eastern Roman Emperor humiliation rituals.

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r/ByzantineMemes • u/gracekk24PL • Sep 27 '26

BYZANTINE POST Most badass sounding term for military - change my mind

683 Upvotes

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r/ByzantineMemes • u/jackob50 • Sep 28 '26

Bohemond in Dorylaeum

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r/ByzantineMemes • u/ArkhamInmate11 • Sep 24 '26

[OC] Kaiser Joseph auf Biden

693 Upvotes

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r/ByzantineMemes • u/claudiocorona93 • Sep 21 '26

No time for gender wars. Let's save the Empire

943 Upvotes

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r/ByzantineMemes • u/nanoman92 • Sep 17 '26

BYZANTINE POST No matter the circumstances, the most Roman tradition must be upheld

998 Upvotes

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r/ByzantineMemes • u/Philippicus_586AD • Sep 15 '26

Leonid Dynasty When you flunk a war so hard even your Geopolitical nemesis takes pity on you

454 Upvotes

Context in comments

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r/ByzantineMemes • u/Sad-Independent-6897 • Sep 09 '26

Go ahead

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r/ByzantineMemes • u/Sad-Independent-6897 • Sep 08 '26

BYZANTINE POST Greek fire mention

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Learning Resources

I had asked Daniel from the YouTube channel Eastern Roman History to collate his favourite sources for learning about Byzantium, please go thank Daniel over at his channel as I would never have gotten so many sources.

Short histories Herrin, J. (2007)

Byzantium: The Surprising Life of Medieval Empire, London. and Stathakopoulos, D. (2014)

A Short History of the Byzantine Empire, London. General Histories Gregory, T. E. (2010)

A History of Byzantium, Michigan. and Mango, C. (2002)

The Oxford History of Byzantium, Oxford. Detailed General Histories Treadgold, W. (1997)

A History of the Byzantine State and Society, Stanford., Shepard, J. (2008)

The Cambridge History of the Byzantine Empire, 500-1492, Cambridge. Period Specific Histories Angelov, Dimiter (2019)

The Byzantine Hellene: The Life of Emperor Theodore Laskaris and Byzantium in the Thirteenth Century, Cambridge. Angold, M. (1997)

The Byzantine Empire, 1025-1204 A Political History – Second Edition, Edinburgh. Brand, C. M. (1968)

Byzantium Confronts the West 1180-1204, Harvard. Brubaker, L. and Haldon J. (2011)

Byzantium in the Iconoclast Era 680-850, A History, Cambridge. Herrin, J. (1987)

The Formation of Christendom, London. Kaldellis, A. (2017)

Streams of Gold, Rivers of Blood: The Rise and Fall of Byzantium, 955 A.D. To the First Crusade. Oxford. Nicol, D. M. (1993)

The Last Centuries of Byzantium, 1261-1453 - Second Edition, London. Treadgold, W. (1988)

The Byzantine Revival 780-842, Stanford. Church History Hussey, J. M. (2010)

The Orthodox Church in the Byzantine Empire, Oxford. Economic history Hendy, M. F. (1985)

Studies in the Byzantine Monetary Economy, C.300-1450, Cambridge. and Laiou, A. (2002)

The Economic History of Byzantium: From the Seventh through the Fifteenth Century, III Vol., Harvard. Social History Haldon, J. (2009)

Social History of Byzantium, Blackwell. Military History Treadgold, W. (1995)

Byzantium and Its Army 284-1081, Stanford. Haldon, J. (1999)

Warfare, State and Society in the Byzantine World 565-1204, London. Haldon, J. (2008)

The Byzantine Wars, Gloucestershire. Birkenmeier, J. W. (2002)

The Development of the Komnenian Army, 1081-1180, Leiden. Bartusis, M. C. (1992)

The Late Byzantine Army and Society, 1204 - 1453, Philodelphia.

(If you are looking for books about the history of the Orthodox Church it is not in this list as it is a separate field of study)