The Byzantine Empire as metaphor for life

MONDAY, 28 MARCH 2016

The Byzantine Empire is a good metaphor for human life: power in youth, vanity because of it, decline as time passes, betrayal by people you trusted, last desperate attempts to save your legacy and do something worth remembering, and then, the inevitable end.

Read more about the Byzantine Empire: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_Empire

Justinian I of Byzantium, c. 482-565

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