Byzantine re-enactment

[Theodosius the Great]

But what happened on May 10th, 333, that in your opinion began this great Empire? :wink:

I was thinking about that too. There was an unbroken succession of Emperors stretching from Augustus all the way up to the Fourth Crusade, so that's about twelve-hundred and thirty-something odd years at the very least. Personally, I start counting from 753 BC and stop at 1453 AD, so...2,206 years by my reckoning.

In the immediate centuries following the fall of the Western Empire, the Eastern Emperors were still educated to look back to Augustus as their primary predecessor and not Constantine (though the latter may have superseded Augustus in imperial ideology in later centuries). At least, that's what the Oxford Encyclopedia of Byzantium says.

~Theo