Byzantine Iconoclasm
Event in History
Byzantine Iconoclasm has come up in 1 episode across 1 podcast in TMT, including Lex Fridman Podcast. 1 person has made recorded remarks about it.
What people said
Anthony KaldellisHistorian of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire at the University of Chicago and author of "The New Roman Empire"
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
Podcasts
- Lex Fridman Podcast · 1 episode
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.