“have an excellent book about. And then the Crusades, and then eventually leading to Constantinople falling in 1453 AD.”
Books mentioned in The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire and the Byzantine Empire | Lex Fridman Podcast #498
From Lex Fridman Podcast · 2026-06-30
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“with Homer and Plato and so forth. And they can be anywhere. Roman history is not like that. Roman history is very specifically the history of a”
“action. And one of the things you said you took away from reading Machiavelli is that we should judge people not by what they say, but by what they do.”