In his History of European Morals, the Anglo-Irish historian W.E.H. I am afraid to say that the Eastern Empire, the thousand-year sequel to ancient Rome that at its height spanned the entire Mediterranean world from the coast of Spain to the Levant, has not always gotten good press. It is because if I wanted to spend hundreds of hours of my life absorbed in the mostly unedifying history of a kingdom and its people - some of them proud and beautiful, some others vicious, most of them worldly, a very small number rather saintly - I would just read more about Byzantium. I say this not simply because I think the show is depraved (though as a former viewer, I do). I have no idea why anyone bothers watching Game of Thrones, which began its eighth and final season on HBO four weeks ago amid record viewing figures.
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