Guest
Anthony Kaldellis
Gaylord Donnelly Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago
Real Alpha has cut 2 moments of Anthony Kaldellis (Gaylord Donnelly Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago) talking, from an interview on Lex Fridman Podcast published Jun 30, 2026.
What Anthony Kaldellis said
Emperors stayed honest because nearly half were overthrown
“Something like 46 percent of the emperors of Constantinople are overthrown through violence. 46 percent. That's almost half.”
Anthony Kaldellis37:01 The empire fell to invasions, not internal decay
“foreign invasions, those which they could not cope with. They coped with lots of them. But, you know, all it takes is to lose to one and you lose some part of your territory.”
Anthony Kaldellis3:24:13
The episode
Lex Fridman PodcastThe Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire and the Byzantine Empire | Lex Fridman Podcast #498
Anthony Kaldellis · Historian, University of Chicago
32:38of 3:51:47 · Jun 30
