Title: Roman Decadence, Rome and Romania, and the Emperors Who Weren't
Headings: Decadence,
Rome and Romania, the Emperors Who Weren't, and Other Reflections on Roman History

Decadence, Rome and Romania, the Emperors Who Weren't, and Other Reflections on Roman History
Decadence
Rome and Romania
Constantinople
Periodization
The Emperors Who Weren't
Summary
Index
"Decadence, Rome and Romania,
the Emperors Who Weren't, etc.," Note 1;
Doctrina Jacobi nuper Baptizati
"Decadence, Rome and Romania,
the Emperors Who Weren't, etc.," Note 2
"Decadence, Rome and Romania,
the Emperors Who Weren't, etc.," Note 3;
"The Pale Death of the Saracens"
"Decadence, Rome and Romania,
the Emperors Who Weren't, etc.," Note 4;
James Frazer and The Golden Bough
"Decadence, Rome and Romania,
the Emperors Who Weren't, etc.," Note 5
"Decadence, Rome and Romania,
the Emperors Who Weren't, etc.," Note 6;
Confabulations about the "Fall" of Rome
"Decadence, Rome and Romania,
the Emperors Who Weren't, etc.," Note 7;
Cities of Rome v. Constantinople
"Decadence, Rome and Romania,
the Emperors Who Weren't, etc.," Note 8,
On "Romania"
The "Byzantium" Derangement Syndrome
Hellenism in Byzantium,
The Transformations of Greek Identity and the Reception of the Classical Tradition, by Anthony Kaldellis [Cambridge, 2007, 2011]
The Myth of Spelling "Correctly"
The Empire That Would Not Die,
The Paradox of Eastern Roman Survival, 640-740,
by John Haldon [Harvard, 2016]
"Rhomaios," The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium, Volume III, edited by Alexander P. Kazhdan & Alice-Mary Talbot [Oxford, 1991, p.1793]
"Decadence, Rome and Romania,
the Emperors Who Weren't, etc.," Note 9
"Decadence, Rome and Romania,
the Emperors Who Weren't, etc.," Note 10;
Stamboul and İstanbul
"Constantinople" in Greek and Latin
"Decadence, Rome and Romania,
the Emperors Who Weren't, etc.," Note 11;
Features of Constantinople
"Decadence, Rome and Romania,
the Emperors Who Weren't, etc.," Note 12;
"Romania" in Arabic
"Decadence, Rome and Romania,
the Emperors Who Weren't, etc.," Note 13;
Liutprand of Cremona (c.922-972 AD)
"Decadence, Rome and Romania,
the Emperors Who Weren't, etc.," Note 14;
Judith Herrin's Byzantium, The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire
"Decadence, Rome and Romania,
the Emperors Who Weren't, etc.," Note 15
"Decadence, Rome and Romania,
the Emperors Who Weren't, etc.," Note 16;
Ottoman Byzantium
"Decadence, Rome and Romania,
the Emperors Who Weren't, etc.," Note 17;
Roman Periodization
"Decadence, Rome and Romania,
the Emperors Who Weren't, etc.," Note 18;
The Disqualification of Germans
"Decadence, Rome and Romania,
the Emperors Who Weren't, etc.," Note 19;
The Myth of German Cavalry
"Decadence, Rome and Romania,
the Emperors Who Weren't, etc.," Note 20;
Adrian Goldsworthy's How Rome Fell, Death of a Superpower

Content: Well, by then, there was stuff to see all over the Empire. Neither of the Vicennalia visits of Diocletian and Constantine went well. In Diocletian's case, seats at the Circus collapsed and 13,000 were killed. The mood of the people was ugly, in part because of their obvious neglect by the emperors. With Constantine, we don't know quite what happened, but shortly after his arrival both his son Crispus and his wife Fausta either died mysteriously or were executed. The population was hostile once again, and Constantine left the City, never to return. He began the construction of Constantinople in 328. Constantine, of course, had converted to Christianity -- or at least had given it official toleration, protection, and then promotion -- and all the charming archaic features of paganism, naked athletes at the Olympics, priestesses of Apollo in trances, ithyphallic Hermae on street corners, priests of Astarte cutting off their genitals, orgiastic Dionysiacs, etc., began to disappear. The empire of 476 was therefore, except for philosophers