I wanted to follow up on this after watching some of the videos from the channel. The production quality is quite high & the narration and writing are great. The one problem I had with the content is that I’ve noticed several mistakes and inaccuracies in the content when the episodes wander into territory that I’m familiar with, and this undermines my confidence in the channel when it comes to subjects I don’t know much about.
As a crude example that particularly stood out to me, in the first episode about Byzantium the narrator says that the emperor Theodosius II was given the news of the sack of Rome in 410 by the Goths. This is false; Theodosius died in 395 and it was in fact his death that (partly) led to the Visigoths breaking the agreement they had previously entered into with the Roman Empire during his rule. It was one of his sons, Honorius, that was Western Emperor in 410.
I wanted to follow up on this after watching some of the videos from the channel. The production quality is quite high & the narration and writing are great. The one problem I had with the content is that I’ve noticed several mistakes and inaccuracies in the content when the episodes wander into territory that I’m familiar with, and this undermines my confidence in the channel when it comes to subjects I don’t know much about.
As a crude example that particularly stood out to me, in the first episode about Byzantium the narrator says that the emperor Theodosius II was given the news of the sack of Rome in 410 by the Goths. This is false; Theodosius died in 395 and it was in fact his death that (partly) led to the Visigoths breaking the agreement they had previously entered into with the Roman Empire during his rule. It was one of his sons, Honorius, that was Western Emperor in 410.