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success is boring, people want tragedy and conflict

Justinian II has one of the most entertaining reigns, you literally can't write a better story (except Heralicus or Diocletian). He was completely in over his head, but by God did he knew what he wanted. An absolute lad. How many men were overthrown, got their nose slit, then came back at the head of a bulgar army with his cute Crimean wife, led his army inside Constantinople through the sewers, got everything back, took sweet sweet vengeance, then lost everything a second time because he didn't learn anything. It's fucking rad. Top tier arc.
Complete bullshit. He was a great general but Rome never waited for him to be glorious, aside from Dacia his conquests weakened the empire, and he benefited from the Persians collapsing in on themselves at just the right moment. Great emperor, but completely overrated and overblown by his own propaganda. He also severely lacks a good character arc, there are a lot of emperors whose reigns would make for way better stories.

Basically what you just said is:
>b-b-b-b-but his empire was bigger!
Doesn't matter. Interesting times = difficult times.

Heraclius and Justinian II were not Roman. They were Greeks. Greekshit does not count.

Disgusting brown parthian hands wrote thid

>no please you can't make a kino about Rome's glory, you have to be demoralising!!!

They were Romans through and through. Rome is an idea, a philosophy and a work ethic, and both Heraclius and Justinian II were true believers in the Roman ethic. Neither of them was born in Greece, neither of them even even had Greek blood in all likelihood, and after the first century BC almost no good emperor came out of Italy anyway, because all true Romans emigrated to build the empire. The eastern Roman empire is Roman through and through, and only western barbarians descended from invaders pretend it was Greek. Because they need to larp for legitimacy.

>demoralizing
If you don't think Heraclius' or Aurelian or Diocletian reigns aren't the greatest inspiring story ever told, I don't even know what to say to your worthless ass. All the great roman stories play out when their civilization is on the brink of collapse and they push the tide of history back through sheer will and sacrifice.

Jews won't allow it unless it's incredibly pozzed

the issue about making antiquity films is that there are like 2 sources written at the time of the event if you are lucky

Thank fuck we have archeology and common sense and aren't taking everything written in those usually shitty sources at face value
It's not a problem at all, that's why history is cool

says the opposite

everything we know about alexander comes from a book written ~300 years after his death. it would be like someone writing a book about napoleon's life based only on hearsay a century from now

what do you mean

generally speaking most Roman sources are remarkably accurate, in so far as they line up with the historical sources of other cultures and the archaeological record. Most Roman authors came from a stoic tradition that favoured unbiased and detached perspectives, and writing wasn't seen as a means to propagandise either.

Literally who e peror. Nobody knows nor cares about Trannyjan. People was Caesar, Aurelius, maybe Hadrian and Augustus, maybe Nero if you go down the bizzare route

No, that's the earliest source with the cool anecdotes (based off earlier, lost sources), but for the rest, there is enough hard evidence to make the main episodes of his conquests facts. If archeology uncovers Greek artefacts, coins and buildings in baktria, it's not because of an anabasis written 300 years after the fact.
Also there are a bunch of fragments from first hand accounts, even if most of it was obviously lost.

at least it's better than nothing

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