What Anthony Kaldellis has said about Byzantine Iconoclasm
1 quote · 1 episode · Jun 30, 2026
Anthony Kaldellis, Historian of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire at the University of Chicago and author of "The New Roman Empire", has been quoted on Byzantine Iconoclasm once in 1 episode of Lex Fridman Podcast, most recently on June 30, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.
In their words
Kaldellis argues the Iconoclasm controversy was socially overblown, mattering intensely only to a small elite who wrote the surviving sources.
“So in my view, this is one of those controversies that only a few people really, really cared about it”
Lex Fridman Podcast: #498 – Anthony Kaldellis: Roman Empire, Byzantine Empire, Rise & Fall of Empires (Jun 30, 2026) · Listen from 3:12:45
Episodes
#498 – Anthony Kaldellis: Roman Empire, Byzantine Empire, Rise & Fall of EmpiresLex Fridman Podcast · Jun 30, 2026 · 3 h 59 min
Historian Anthony Kaldellis and Lex Fridman trace 2,200 years of Roman history, arguing the Byzantine Empire was simply the Roman Empire and explaining its longevity.
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