Question: What is more boring than the Byzantine Empire?

[skygazer]

Answer: The author of my History book's description of the Byzantine Empire. :boring:

[MrCoffee]

1. The rule of John II Komnenos was exhilarating

[skygazer]

4. You wouldn't know it from this guy

It all pales in comparison with the latest contretemps in the local sushi restaurant. :(

[Bucky]

19. People who use the word "contretemps" don't deserve any fun.

And they certainly don't deserve any of that exhilarating crying-baby-with-sushi ambiance you get at the fabulous Olive Gardens found in Las Vegas.

[Oeditpus Rex]

2. I was gonna say 'A thread about it'

but you've kinda trumped that right outa the gate. :D

[skygazer]

6. Hey, you clicked on it, Buster

:P

[Oeditpus Rex]

12. Well, *yeah*

To post me some snark. :P

[Blue-Jay]

3. The Annotated History Of Brown Socks.

Not exactly a page-turner.

[skygazer]

5. Does it have pictures?

If it's got pictures, its head and shoulders above this.

[Blue-Jay]

7. It has pictures, but it also has a Forward by Ben Stein.

[krispos42]

8. Not the fictional future history of the ancient Byzantine Empire

Agent of Byzantium is intersting alternative-history fiction

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basil_Argyros

[skygazer]

9. Great - something else to distract me

:rofl:

[femmocrat]

10. I love Byzantine art!

NOT boring at all!

[skygazer]

11. Unfortunately, this is not about art

It doesn't really seem to be about anything much, except a long, droning litany of names and dates. Kind of reminds me of the whole biblical "begats" thing - and Jeremiah begat Richard, and Richard begat Edgar, and Edgar begat Samual and Wally, and Wally begat Anastasia, and....

[mainegreen]

13. What? The Byzantine Empire is most definitly not boring!!

Heathen!

:P

[ZombieNixon]

14. I find Constantine V hilarious.

He was designated Copronymus ("poop-name") by his enemies. :D

[skygazer]

15. See, now why couldn't this author include fun facts like that?

Boring writers should be lined up in front of a wall and shot. :grr:

[Elidor]

16. Everything I needed to know about the Byzantine Empire

I learned from They Might Be Giants.

[Richardo]

17. Cotton Mather

[Bucky]

18. I teach world history and I gotta say I find the Byzantine Empire boring too.

I mean, it's got a pretty cool name, after all, and yet there's not one interesting thing about them. By the time the Seljuk Turks show up in Chapter 27, I'm practically rooting for them to overrun Constantinople and deface the statuary.

[leave iraq]

20. the Regan empire

[NewJeffCT]

21. What's not to love about Byzantine history?

The schism between Catholicism and Orthodox Christianity… the Crusades…Constantinople as a center of trade and history… conquest, reconquest, wars, rebellions, etc, etc. I mean, it's positively Byzantine in its complexity.