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Anthony Kaldellis
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The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire and the Byzantine Empire | Lex Fridman Podcast #498
Anthony Kaldellis reframes Byzantium as Rome, showing how universal taxation financed a 100,000-250,000 career army and converted security into production, population, and future revenue.Roughly 120 civil wars and the violent overthrow of 46% of Constantinople’s emperors made legitimacy a perpetual referendum, while rapid external shocks tested a state defined by endogenous recovery.