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Feb 2024
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Episode 283 - The New Roman Empire with ...

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Professor Kaldellis' new history of Byzantium is out now in the USA and on Kindle everywhere.


In the final episode in this series he answers more of your questions. Amongst the topics we cover are citizenship, class, counter-factuals, academia and AI.


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