`BYZANTIUM: THE LOST EMPIRE' BRINGS ANCIENT WORLD TO LIFE.(Television)

Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) | August 16, 1997 | Copyright

If all the Byzantines left behind were their names as an insult for impenetrable bureaucracies, they would deserve our eternal gratitude.

Obviously, they left much more. The 1,000-year Byzantine Empire willed us icons, mosaics, the works of Plato and the concept of the Virgin Mother - not to mention pants, forks, feminism, zoos and architecture.

You can learn all these intriguing bits of historical trivia and much more on ``Byzantium: The Lost Empire.'' Hosted by the peripatetic John Romer, who previously swung through much of the Byzantine empire for ...

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