How an obsession with the past destroyed the present
In short: Emperor Justinian I sought to restore the glory of Rome, but his victory over the Ostrogoths may have been his most devastating failure. This video explores how a quest for ancient prestige turned a flourishing peninsula into a wasteland.
The Gothic War began in 535 when Byzantine forces landed in Sicily to reclaim Italy from the Ostrogoths.
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