>Tutored Emperors>Somehow lived to 100>Saved countless works of Greek philosophy>Practiced Greek Paganism… in the Middle Ages>Triggered the Renaissance>Lived just long enough to see Constantinople fallHow was this guy real?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemistos_Plethon
>>18253055When you are so neurodivergent that the Gods bless you with the autism of changing the entire worldview and ethos of the Mediterranean Europe.Happy Saturnalia, Merry Mithrasmas, /hist/bro.
>>18253055Byzantines are top to bottom hilarious. The book of ceremonies is perhaps a thousand pages of -we do this because it makes us seem cool-. They are the greatest empire.