Byzantium Theme - Atomic (Civilization 6 OST) | Ti Ipermaho, Kontakion of the Mother of God
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- Опубликовано: 23 сен 2020
- The Byzantine theme during the Atomic/Information Era. Based on the Akathist hymns, Ti Ipermaho and Kontakion of the Mother of God. All credit goes to Geoff Knorr, Niccolo Seligmann (bass viol, vielle, bowed lyra), Martinů Voices (vocals), Phill Boucher, and all other musicians who created this beautiful soundtrack.
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Teacher: "Where is China?"
Student: *Points to china on map, "Here!"
Teacher: "Where is Brazil?"
Student: *Points to Brazil on map, "Here!"
Teacher: Where is The Byzantine Empire?
Student" *Holds hand over heart, "Here."
*Roman Empire
@@C0DE_ZER0 *Eastern Roman Empire Check mate Bar bar
Honestly just posted a meme, leave it to Raccon up there to "Acthually" me.
@@inquisitorsteve1429 töten töten töten
The ERE is also in my heart.
*PETITION TO HAVE CONSTANTINE THE GREAT AS AN ALTERNATE LEADER FOR BOTH ROME AND BYZANTIUM*
That would seem more like a Justinian I kinda thing, imo.
@@Groaker Decent alternative.
I’d say personally that Constantine would be more suitable, since Justinian was never emperor of both the East and West, simply because the West had already fallen and his reconquests didn’t encompass ALL the former territories.
I'd love at least two alternate leaders for almost, if not all civs ngl
@@korneltakacs3692 sames
would play the shit out of a trajan constantine basil 3 man coop vs harder ais with friends not gonna lie
I'm an Orthodox monk, and I approve of this. ☦️✊
@@user-ud6hg4tt4g noone asked.
@@user-ud6hg4tt4g
This is not a dick-measuring contest. Who elected you to be a Muezzin of Islam, anyway? What are you going to claim next, the Al-Mahdi?
@@DM-dy9bq And I, what. Should I ask you for permission separately?
@@budakbaongsiah I became a Muezzin - after all, this is a very honorable fate in Islam. There is a great reward from Allah for this. And where did you get the idea - that I will demand something?
@Elon Musk You do not know me. But you accuse me of terrorism. Guy - you lack logic and common sense, you can walk far and long with such claims, I don't communicate with such poisonous substances!
This is what Byzantine people will sing whenever their space colonies successfully surviving alien invasion....
*cough..roman...*cough...roman people
@@doctor_death4239 Well....( Western ) Roman people is currently struggling to fight againts those space Goths armies in other side of galaxy....
( Yeah... I know Byzantine people still call themselves as Roman people, I just use the term "Byzantine" to distinguish them from ( Western ) Roman people... )
@@doctor_death4239 Yes we all get that. It's just to distinguish the other half of the Roman Empire that speaks Greek and choose Eastern Orthodoxy.
Interesting idea recreat the roman empire in mars
@@imperiumbrasiliae
Honoring their War God, eh?
If this isn’t played at my funeral, I’m not going
Where will you go then?
@@georgefloydsfake20dollarbi28 hell
The way it's arranged to clearly be modern and yet still such a beautiful and religious piece is honestly astounding. I absolutely love Geoff Knorr and everyone else who works on these masterpieces
It makes it sound more fitting for an empire of angels.
The year is 10018 A.D, and Basil is conquering space bulgaria and fighting his greatest rival, space tsar Samuel
You mean the Arteides qre conquering space and they are fighting the Harkonnen.
Convert the aliens
@Joe Vladimirovich Kurosawa emperor philip iv of rome
One of the few songs that, in my opinion, constantly improves with each era.
Agreed
Agreed. Given that the original composition survives to the current time, I won't be surprised how it gets better... Just like wine.
I just realised that I requested the song, “Ti Ipermaho” for the Byzantine theme at the Civ forums. An absolute wonderful iteration by the Civ composers, absolutely good work.
Thank you so much!
You left us a great and majestic gift. Well done!
@@jianfongyaw Haha thanks, I was really blown away when my request did get through!
@Unfriendly atheist civfanatics
I hear this and I just imagine back to the Eastern Roman Empire. Rolling through the Aegean, the mountains of Anatolia, ships on the sea sailing east and west. Then, at 2:14, in the distance, a beacon. We get closer, seeing the Theodosian Walls grow larger and larger as we approach. We're at the gates now, they open before us. And then, at 3:09, we see it: Constantinople, the Capital of the World. Trade ships from every corner arriving in its docks, citizens cheering on in the hippodrome or just going about their lives, the Hagia Sofia standing tall for all to see.
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@@sultanabdulaziz1603 LMAO
@@sultanabdulaziz1603 jajajaja
@@agustinezequielmendez1333 jaja ne a*k malı?
@@sultanabdulaziz1603 ?
This make me imagine a massive fleet of Orthodox Byzantine spaceships in space
For fun, I’m gonna guess something like that would have some sort of “Greek Star Fire” or something like that.... maybe a Byzantine version of the Death Star that shoots a solar flare version of Greek fire?
Protoss 'Glassing' seems appropriate too. Planets are just ships waiting to be burned!
Basically if the Roman Empire never fell they would have all of that.
Man never got to the moon as proven by their not having built a base or landmark there to verify from a telescope on earth since they can't fake that on the real moon. See also shadow discrepancies, the size-of-earth-is-too-damn-small-from-their-supposed-photos-from-the-moon discrepancy with reality, and the lying serpent tongue that is on NASA's logo. But the gullible masses will continue to trust the same government that promised weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
@@scintillam_dei Ah, I wasn’t expecting to meet a Western conspiracy theorist, how exciting for me tho xD
Also I’m not American, I don’t even live close to the country :P
@@boaoftheboaians I didn't say you were in the US. You're also a conspiracy theorist if you believe the official conspiracy theory about the Black Hand conspiring to assassinate the archduke of Austria-Hungary which began World War 1.
Lyrics:
Tí ypermácho stratigó tá nikitíria, - To the defender army leader(all) the jubilees
os lytrotheísa tón deinón efcharistíria, - entitled to You by Your city, God-bearer
anagráfo soi i Pólis sou Theotóke. - as gratitude expressives for being saved from woes
All' os échousa tó krátos aprosmáchiton, - Inasmuch as You keep the state invincible,
ek pantoíon me kindýnon elefthéroson, - deliver me from all kinds of perils,
ína krázo soiˑˑ• Chaíre, Nýmfi anýmfefte - so that I can exclaim to You: Rejoice, Bride unwed
Στα Ελληνικά:
Τη Υπερμάχω Στρατηγώ τα νικητήρια,
Ως λυτρωθείσα των δεινών ευχαριστήρια,
Αναγράφω σοι η Πόλις σου, Θεοτόκε.
Αλλ’ ως έχουσα το κράτος απροσμάχητον,
Εκ παντοίων με κινδύνων ελευθέρωσον.
Ίνα κράζω σοι, Χαίρε, Νύμφη Ανύμφευτε.
They couldn't have picked a better theme than this! Militaristic, imperial, regal and religious all rolled into one. Fitting for the ERE!
You got the English translations of the second and third lines mixed up.
I’m Catholic and I want to sing this but I can’t since this is an Eastern Orthodox song. 😢😭
@@mlvcsj the hymn Ti Ipermaho (and the others Akathists) was wrote in the first millenium.
This, specifically, was made for commemorating the roman victory in a persian siege against Constantinople in 626.
in this time, both Roman and the Byzantine Churches was united as One Holy Catholic Church, and linked to the Empire.
Also, this hymns was singned by the Oriental Catholics in communion with the Pope in Rome.
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by the way, it's a a beauty song, a beauty praise for Our Most Holy Lady, and thats matter.
Ottomans: "Finally, a worthy opponent, our battle will be legendary!"
same as for Bulgarians
Hungarians from the west: We have you surrounded at least from this side!
Why using Tai Lung's dialogue?
@@aidenzhu9787 because of how memorable that line was.
Byzantines: You're late to the "attack CONSTANTINOPOLIS" club, but you're the last vulture so you have it easier to take us down since you stand on the shoulders of others like crusaders who did much of the work already.
Do people realize that this song is one of the most important and sacred chants of Christian Orthodoxy?
Is a remix of the chant "Υπερμαχο Στρατηγό" Ypermaho Stratigo.
It's the hymn and chant they chanted in Agia Sophia Cathedral asking for Virgin Mary to help them against their enemies.
You should hear the original.
That's why you all like it.
@Isaac Navarro the records of it survived, it's been sung and recorded many times
@Isaac Navarro u mommy's special boy aren't u
@Isaac Navarro Lmao good one.
@Isaac Navarro it never stopped being chanted, it is literally the original.
I would think so considering they gave credit to the original chants.
This is one of the only music that has made me cry. Congratulations, Civilization VI developers, congratulations.
Say thanks to mr Geoff Knorr and company: Phill Boucher, the FILMHarmonic orchestra of Prague and Martinu Voices Choir
@@pablor.sepulveda9929 the chant is still taken from the 7th century
@@aggelos8256 Yes but they played it XD
The song is literally with some sort of epic. How could you cry? Women…
Τη Υπερμάχω Στρατηγώ τα νικητήρια,
Ως λυτρωθείσα των δεινών ευχαριστήρια,
Αναγράφω σοι η Πόλις σου, Θεοτόκε.
Αλλ’ ως έχουσα το κράτος απροσμάχητον,
Εκ παντοίων με κινδύνων ελευθέρωσον.
Ίνα κράζω σοι, Χαίρε, Νύμφη Ανύμφευτε.
Yunanistanşerefsizdirrusköpeklerisizimanda.
@@sultanabdulaziz1603 No Yuman,
Rum , Rum :)
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@@steliosbyzantium9869 gerizekalıaptalrumgeber
rum means roman in old turkish, it was used in seljuk times to represent greeks,turks and other ethnicities in anatolia alike later used to represent greek speaking minorities
Basil II's diplomacy screen shows part of a Byzantine church under the evening sun.
Basil II's leader ability is a title used by Byzantine emperors meaning "born in the purple", denoting they were legitimate heirs of a reigning emperor, born in a special porphyry-clad pavilion in the imperial palace, while his leader agenda references the close relationship between the Byzantine empire and the Eastern Orthodox Church.
Basil II first appeared as a non-playable leader in the Vikings, Traders, and Raiders! scenario.
The church is the Saint Sophia Church in Ohrid, North Macedonia
@@pablor.sepulveda9929 Actually, Porfyrogennetos means "born in the purple", but does not distinguish whether he was the legitimate heir or not. It just points out that he/she was born while his/her father was Emperor, which is interesting, because Basil's father became Emperor one year after Basil was born. In fact, his brother Constantine VIII, who was born two years later during the reign of Romanos II, was Porfurogennetos, but wasn't the heir to the throne (as he was the second brother), while the heir Basil wasn't born in the purple.
The more I think about it, the more Basil II really is the best possible representation for the Byzantines.
Are the greater and better leaders in Byzantine history? Sure. Better or more iconic emperors can be named. But that's not the point, that's not what the Byzantines were.
They were persistant. Despite their flaws, despite their infighting they remained when the rest of Rome fell around them. Just like Basil II they remained when all others failed. They were not the best, they were simply the most resiliant. For 1,000 years after the fall of the West they stood alone, a giant in the East.
Basil is the best choice of leader for them in Civ.
And now we'll have Theodora back
💯💯like this Ottoman Empire 👏👏👏
We can still hope for Justinian I as leader for both rome and byzantium
its NEVER too late for a crusade my friend
they weren't the ones doing a crusade, they did just let the crusaders pass through their land, and then die to a crusade
They died to a Crusade! 4th Crusade put the nail in the coffin of the Byzantines. Irrespective of that, Basil 2 achieved what the Crusades wanted to, without the actual Crusade.
@@AlbertTheFractalExistenceultimately, the single greatest enemy of the Eastern Romans was never the Turks, the Ottomans, the Bulgars, the Serbs, the Normans, the Latins, the Hungarians, and any other number of external enemies. The single greatest enemy of the ERE was internal politics.
And Catholic world was cursed to face and especially be terrorized on seas by a very aggressive and a muslim rome.
There's something oddly moving about hearing the modern / futuristic themes for civilisations that never survived to the modern age.
You mean Greek speaking Orthodox as the civilizations?
Православная цивилизация живёт и процветает по сей день 🇬🇷🇨🇾🇧🇬🇷🇺🇲🇰🇷🇴🇬🇪🇲🇪🇲🇩🇷🇸🇧🇾🇦🇲🇪🇷
I feel much closer to God listening to this.
Both are Byzantine Orthodox hymns related to Virgin Mary
Not Virgin Mary, Theotokos! Catholicism emphasises Mary's virginity but Orthodoxy focuses on her role as mother.
@@principetnomusic My bad. Sorry
@@pablor.sepulveda9929 Nothing to apologise for! It is acceptable to call Mary the Virgin in Orthodox Christianity too - it's just less common. Just wanted to share a random fact about my country's religion.
@@principetnomusic The trivia is appreciated my man, keep doing your thing. God bless!
The original is still sung here in Greece. It's very well known. But what a wonderful adaptation to a modern style.
Πολύ όμορφη διασκευή. Ο Ιησούς Χριστός να μας ευλογεί. Τιμη και δόξα στο Βασίλειο των Ρωμαίων!
Bless the Romans
2:55 is the exact moment when humanity finds the Holy Grail.
The transition at 2:11 is amazing. Wow.
Love this, love that this was chosen as The Most Byzantine Thing- It’s not every hymn that describes the Blessed Virgin as “Hyper-macho”
3:32 - 3:47 best 15 seconds of the enitre OST right here
Glory to Byzantium
Glory to Rome
The best , hands down , for the best civ there is .
Thanks, I got a little stunned listening to this music at full volume. I am happy with the result
This is so magnificent and immense.
Peaches Lamb ily
a romance in 2 parts
@@ashaler__ Worthy of an Oscar to be sure
SPQR for Space Program Quest of Rome
The Great Crusade of M30, in audio form.
That semitone decrease at 4:06 genuinely scared me
Don't be scared its our Christian music this may sound weird to you if you are not a greek😃
It is a bit off tho
Ζήτω η Ελλάς!!! Ζήτω η Ορθοδοξία!! Ιησούς Χριστός Νικά ☦
Αγαμητος για πάντα ζητω
This song serves to remind people how the byzantine where both roman and not roman
Whatever Roman means to people who barely understand the term and think it's a nationality
they were roman wym?
It is a shame that 99% of Bulgarians will not SEE the Byzantine space program.
So beautiful 😭😭😭😭
long live the Hellenes, the Italics and their respective cultures, may glory be established...
This comoposition is like history of Byzantium, magnificent... and there is that wierd hickup since 4:00 on, and that is the period of latin kingdom... XD
Long live Byzantium !!!! ✊✊✊
No Byzantine 😢😢😢
Yes Istanbul ❤
@@kingdomofpalestine2292 the ottomans did not name consantinople "istanbul", it was only after their collapse and the formation of turkey was it renamed Istanbul. and even better: why not we just all coexist?
Just imagine a fleet of cathedral spaceships made of gold.
For the Emperor, and the Battlefleet GOTHIIIIIIIIIC!
It would break immediately
Yes, basically 40k
Beautiful music 💜☦💜
Where boys cried: Fall of Caesar.
Where Men cried: Fall of Rome.
Where All cried: Fall of Constantinople.
Where Аll smiles: Moscow is standing - hope lives
@@user-cf4ew4ec1z Cringe moscovite.
@@APoleYouKnow Cry about it, divided. And the third Rome is standing and the fourth will not be
@@user-cf4ew4ec1z Lol imagine claiming to be 3rd Rome because of having the same religion as the 2nd, Rome had over its history changed faiths many times, so that makes no sense, The OTTOMANS, had a better claim than you.
The saddening part is, after warding off so many threats, the end of rome happened under catholic hands. Turks were torn apart by mongols and romans were reclaiming lands and their diplomacy was in touch with mongols. When crusaders sacked the treasure enough to make many more crusader army from ONE city, it was death of constantinople with no hope to recover. Then venice enjoyed full control of eastern coasts. Ottomans were a chiefdom lucky enough to be right next to the bankrupt roman lands to capture and they got along well with other stronger turkish lords. Catholic world deserved to face and especially terrorized on sea by a much more aggressive, proficient in war and a muslim rome.
The music of Heaven.
This is my favorite thing: A fusion of old and new
This and the Cree themes are officially my most favorite themes out of all the Civs :D
Cree and Byzantium are good but they’re nothing compared to Georgia and Maori and Zulu
@@cumunist2120 agreed
Listening to this makes me itch for future era themes so badly, make byzantium's some autotuned orthodox choir or something
Constantinople💛☦💜
Deus vult
@@mokhtarboulekouiret8460 4th crusade be like
Actually this is the real theme of the modern Greek nation... This hymn is played in every church every 15 of August, in national celebration of "Dekapentavgoustos" (means "15 of august") in which according to the Orthodox church Virgin Mary died and ascented to the heavens (and yes in Greece we celebrate the death more than the birth, because only with and after death the salvation will come)...
The Dormition/Assumption of the Blessed Mother of God also is a high class feast in the Latin Church, also celebrates in August 15.
The whole course of life and deatn and glory of Jesus and Mary are celebrated.
@Hmm Ok. it's simply 3000 years of culture and indentity
@Hmm Ok. You forgot Myceanean and Minoan Civilizations. Yes it is complicated...
@Valentín Freymóðsson actualy they were neolithic people of Greece and the affected Greek culture as well, so...
@Valentín Freymóðsson Actually.....they were the beginning of the Greeks. It's the same people who migrated to the whole region of Greece and later identified themselves as Greeks.
Basilio Bulgaroktonos... un grande!
Así se presenta en la Civilopedia. Hasta en eso son precisos
From the walls of your city, you gaze at the Turkish army amassing in the field right in front of you. They prepare their cannons, aiming to fire at the walls that have protected your city for centuries. Your guards implore you to step off the walls, in case the enemy tries to take advantage. You decide to settle into your palace, but not before inspecting the waters around your city. Your navy seems to be successful against the enemy ships, it was a good thing you ordered that chain formation, you think. Even with the overwhelming Turkish force, your men are still putting up a fight. But you know, deep down, that it may not be enough. You are still waiting for those Venetian mercenaries to arrive, but your patience for them is wearing thin. You asked, no, you begged for the leaders of the west to come to your aid. You were willing to unite your church with the Pope, submit to him and end the schism in the church that has lasted for hundreds of years. But they will not help you, the Pope told you lightly that he could not command the kings of Europe to help you, even in your hour of need.
You are the Basileus, the Emperor of the Romans. You have learned from the histories that your domain has lasted for over a millennium, and the name of the Romans stretches back even further. You know the massive legacy emperors such as Augustus, Trajan, Hadrian, Diocletian, Constantine, the great man you share your name with, and Justinian, and many others left behind. Everything they left behind was for you to rule, and you look at the map of your domains, and the domains of those great emperors. You see how the territory grew and then shrunk, and then shrunk some more, and then the west fell, and then the east was left to shrink some more. And you see your domains, the tiny parcels of land you control. It's just your city, Constantinople, that stretch of land on the western shores of the Hospitable Sea, a few islands in the Aegean, and maybe most of Morea, but that's it. You wonder then, what is really worth fighting for? The enemies of your civilization are going to destroy it all anyways, as they had in the deep past. No matter how far it may come back, it will all be for nothing. Your city, your empire, is done for. It should have been destroyed a long time ago. You could've been born an aristocrat in one of the pleasant Italian cities, or a hero in the Reconquest of Spain, or, hell be damned, one of the Turk officers your men are sacrificing their lives fighting against right now. At least you could die knowing that your empire, your people, will rise to the top of the world. But no, instead you are a petty king, of a petty land, whose peak was a thousand years behind you, and you will die defending a shell of what your people had once been: great warriors, philosophers, orators, writers and craftsmen. Your legacy will be but a tiny footnote in history. A king who died defending a pile of rubble. Why has the Lord resigned you to this fate? You decide you can't ponder this question forever, and must act to save as much of your subjects as you can. After a busy day finishing the preparations for the assault, you go to bed.
Weeks pass. Though the defenses are losing their grip by the day, somehow your people remain resilient. They help out on repairs, and try their best to keep the morale of the troops high. Maybe this is a sign that your empire will survive the siege. Maybe you don't have to worry about being remembered as a king of a dying land. Maybe you can be remembered as the king who got his kingdom back up from seemingly impossible odds, and ushered in a new age of growth and prosperity for the Romans. Then, you are woken up in the middle of the night by your military advisors. They tell you the Turks have breached the walls and are starting their offensive. You don't have much time left. You know this is the moment your world ends.
A final mass is called. You enter the Hagia Sophia, you hear the choir sing as beautifully as ever, and the eyes of your subjects rest on you. They have definitely gotten thinner, weaker, hungrier. But yet, they don't look mad. Maybe they know that, in spite of impossible odds, you tried. You tried to save them, their city, their civilization, and that is enough for them to thank you. But you still feel regret, you still feel like you have not done enough. You still feel like a failure, the Roman Emperor who let the Roman Empire die. Then you notice unfamiliar faces. You realize...they are Latins. Every citizen of Constantinople, regardless of their affiliation...has joined in the mass. You hear a quick report...the Venetians have arrived. Maybe this is the point things get better now, maybe the church will finally unite to stop the Turkish threat. Then you hear that they only brought a few men...not even enough to make a dent in the enemy army. Even though the west tried to lend you a hand, it is too late.
The liturgy continues, and at the very end, they sing the ancient hymn of victory. You are at first puzzled by this...but then you realize...they are calling out for the Mother of God to help then in their darkest hour. You decide to silently join in the prayer, but in the back of your head, you know it might not be enough. Nothing will be enough.
After the dismissal, you check on the situation. You hear numerous footsteps as you edge closer to the walls. You then see one of your soldiers retreating. You realize what he is doing...he is running back to his family. You wait for an officer to come to you and tell you what is happening, but no one arrived. You head near your palace. You see the last remnant of your army...the army that once conquered the world...scrambling to keep themselves together and defend whatever they have left. You see multiple fires raging, bodies scattered on the roads. This is the end. You have failed.
Maybe you should escape now. Maybe there is one last opportunity to fight another day. You tell a captain to get a boat ready. It seems that reluctantly, he complied and ran off to one of the ships still remain in the harbor, and you see him ordering the last few remaining seamen to prepare the ship for you. In those moments, you reminisce of the days where you didn't have to worry about Turkish invasion, and envy the people who were living in the golden eras of Rome. You then wonder... if there was any meaning to fight for the empire, other than to plunder the lands of their treasure, like the Turks are doing now. Maybe it was for a higher power...yeah that may be the case...but what about before Christianity? Why would the great heroes like Camillus, or Cincinnatus, or Scipio want to fight for what amounted to a small part of the world? Why would emperors like Augustus, Diocletian, and Constantine work to save their empire from threats when it was flawed?
Then you think about the accomplishments of your long dead empire...you realize that despite all of its flaws, despite everything that has happened to it...it survived. And it didn’t just survive, it made itself better than before. It built great roads, sprawling, organized cities, beautiful architecture. It spawned great men of the arts, philosophy, engineering, and science. And it did this over the entire Mediterranean. No other nation of antiquity could match it, and it seems like no nation of this time could either. And when kept failing, it turned to the Lord, and despite the flaws of the church, it made the empire survive another thousand years. And you realize that even after the fall of the west, the great monuments, the arts, the grandiose vision of the empire survived, even with ruled by barbarians. Even if the Empire will truly fall now...Rome...will still live. The West WILL oppose the Turkish and Muslim armies, the framework, arts, and science of your empire WILL survive and usher in a new beginning, and the nations of Europe will grow stronger, and grow further beyond, and your legacy will. be. realized. You are not going to go down as the last emperor who let his empire die. You are going to go down as the last emperor who sacrificed himself for the good of Rome, for the good of the world. You will be remembered for leading a last stand against a foreign army that was stronger than yours, yes, but one that lacked the spirit of yours. Even now, at the very end, soldiers by your palace are defending their families and the city, and the empire. They could’ve surrendered, but instead they are choosing to go down as heroes.
You are reminded of the akathist hymn. And then you suddenly realize that the Mother of God has been defending Rome all along. She has helped the soldiers fight to the very end, and she will intercede for Christ in the countries of the west, defending your legacy and the legacy of the empire, inspiring them to remember the glory that once was, and work to build a better world.
The hymn rings in your ear. You can hear it. You now know what to do. You run back to the palace, where your troops are making their last stand. You hear the loud yells of your men, and the clashing of blades. They see you, one of them tells you to run. But you’ve made up your mind.
The sound of the hymn grows ever louder. The enemy soldiers see you, a surprised look on their faces. You tear off your robes, and pick up a weapon from one of your fallen men. The hymn reaches the crescendo. You join your dying men, and charge at the enemy. The last fight Rome will ever fight. You then feel yourself being impaled, but it is not the pain you linger on, it is the final words of the hymn. You hear them lowering their voices to a final stop, and by then all you can see is darkness and light. You are certain of what happened.
Rome won.
@@captainch6182 How many hours did it take to write that?
@@canwepretendthateverything8451 the reign of constantine viii
Holy Shit! This is Epic!
Someone get Dovah and tell him to put this in his script for whenever he covers 1453
If a modern Byzantine state had an anthem
Actually the Medieval one did. This was it.
@@paulmayson3129 closest thing to one yep
There something that's close to it. Search for Mount Athos on Google.
HAHAHA GIVE ME BACK CONSTANTINOPLE
Constantinus 11
@SebiscuitTheGreat OOOF this guy is the guy who went out with his people at the seige of costantinople, id say he was a good emporer
Wich constantine of the 18 you are
@@imperiumbrasiliae The last one :'(
@@user-cx4ic6he9k alright then great and noble marble emperor
To a listener for the first time it could be a triumphant march
Ah yes Oil Free Modern Armour Tank 30000000000000
When you blind your first alien pretender 😎👌
I'm not even Orthodox Chistian nor Greek, but this is catchy. Makes me wonder what if Byzantine survives to this day (even if its just a Constantinople city-state).
Nah, Turkey ate it.
It's not the "GREEK EMPIRE" it's the Roman Empire. It always had been since it's conception, and died as the Roman Empire.
@Pin what? For the majority of the Roman Empire's existence, Greek was the lingua franca of the eastern half of the empire. It's not like Latin supplanted Greek in the east; they were both used, but the latter ones were used extensively since most of the population on that side can at least understand it.
@Pin Being Roman had nothing to do with language or ethnicity. Being "Roman" was about citizenship and adherence to Roman law. Whatever your language or ancestry, anyone could become a Roman. It really was one of the first nations in the world where national identity came from a political idea rather than a shared ethnolinguistic history.
@@CoffeeSuccubus it wasn’t the Roman Empire as that implies that it was somewhat United. I think it’s fair to call the “eastern Roman Empire”. Same goes with the western half, just because it was in the west it still wasn’t the Roman Empire, it was the “western Roman Empire” since the empire was split into two.
*НУЖНО БОЛЬШЕ ПРАВОСЛАВИЯ*
Богу православия.
Love from Turkey as a Turko-Greek
Return to true beauty.
@@marcusli5112 a turk from eastern black sea is more likely to be more greek than a greek in thracia. They are quite mixed "people groups" and regions matter.
Your Turk parent is still of greek ancestry
How wonderful would it be if this song were played in the Basilica of San Vitale?
I was surprised at how respectful of the original this composition is. The little chromatic notes, which sound strange if one knows only modern Western music, are just as they should be, which shows that the composers did their homework.
Roman Empire was one of the best Empires of humanity at its height
🟥🟨⬜️☧⬜️🟨🟪
When you destroy the original Rome so you can call yourself Rome without the other Rome complaining
Cope and seethe. "Byzantine" was made up after 1453 by butthurt Franks and Venetians to justify themselves aping as Rome.
Wdym by Original Rome
New Rome (Constantinople)
Except they were NEW Rome since 330. And the Capital of both halves from 330-395. Nice try though
That's a comment for the Germanics actually since they first destroyed the Western romance empire and after 400 years of that proclaimed themselves as the holy Roman Empire. Those in the east were indeed the eastern Roman Empire.
I put this in my car
Really wanna play this on my youtube music, but sadly it’s not available apparently 😔
RUclips music is useless.
Ironically in the game i couldn't against Suleiman while i was calling other planets "Cosmictinople"
When Constantinople is liberated, this song must be played in constant repeat during the procession from the Golden Gate to the core of Hagia Sophia.
Then the neo Turks will retake it too because they want back their instanbull , and the cycle will never ends....
And when the procession starts in the Golden Gate, Constantine himself will arise from Marble and lead the procession at the head in triumph.
Must be under a constantine the current king of greece and his grandson are constantines so who knows
Made by a Constantine, died under a Constantine, revived by Constantine…?
Come.We wait you. İf you can t come we are coming ın there
Listening to this after watching SandRhoman’s fall of Constantinople video hits different
I'll have this played in Constantinople one day, mind my words.
BYZANTIUUUUUUMMMMMMMM
Eastern Roman Empire or Imperium Romanum
Why are both the medieval and ancient versions not yet downloadable too? 🤨🧐🤔
WITH BLESSING FROM GOD, EMPEROR AND ATOM POWER ⚛️
Reforming the United Roman Empire type hours
Sad I will never be able hear it in game, as Byzantium in this game is a crazy aggrasive domination civ, I always win the game at around industry era
When you nuke ottoman:
Why am I crying? lol
2:38
Humanity's theme
When ur from Turkey and realize that last emperor of Byzantium didn't retreat and died like a true roman emperor. Which makes me respect Byzantium and its legacy of it. And also as the faith said, we are the roman empire. So as a Turk i embrace Byzantium as my legacy as well just like the ottomans and the roman empire. Ahem coolest empires in history boi
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Anyone here for 3:09?
Yes, and it sounds like a triumphant march fit for a nation of angels.
thats the sound of the thurible in the Church
Let's pray every one for Portugal and Austria
Actually there're 2 new civs and 1 returning that remains if we follow the pattern Firaxis used for their previous contents. So let's pray for either Portugal or Austria :D
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@@Crudeliciousbops and Argentina!!!
@@agustinezequielmendez1333 Mapuche is already covering part of that area 🤔
I want to see Portugal, Malaysia and Vietnam next for playable civs in the New Frontier Pass.
Behold, Romania
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Imagine having the Chinese getting multiple civs for the many eras they’ve been around
@Bryce Plummer well Rome does
@Bryce Plummer is it really though?
The Manchu Qing and Mongol Yuan could qualify for being very foreign from China, even though some of China's well-known dynasties (such as the Eastern Han vs. the Tang, the Zhou, the Qin, and the Ming) could be different from each other.
I am the only that think maybe the song agni partehne was a better option for the byzantine theme ?
I think this one is a good option. This is the hymn they used to sing to ask Virgin Mary for protection (and their walls, also)
To me it seems more versatile for using as a base for the Byzantine themes for all eras. Maybe only " Hristos anesti" would be better. But still this one has e very " epic" background. The one i mentioned is a much more known hymn that is chanted in the evening of the resurrection in Good Sunday.
Nope, definitely Phos Hilaron suited much, albeit it's been used for Civ V and this game's ambience
This should be Greek anthem
GG EZ
So sad that astounding empire fell under muslim rule ...its to cry.
A Basì , ma che stai a fa ? Ricordete che i veneziani , stano ariva
Byzantines are catholic or orthodox
Orthodox
Im catholic cristian from italy
@@alessiocartesegna6199 I am Orthodox Christian from Cyprus. I hope you are doing well my Italian brother.
@@LinkSoul64 During the early days they generally subscribed to chalcedonian Christianity, Catholicism and orthodoxy wasn’t much of a thing during the 500s
Basil II looking for space Bulgars xD
اني انا مدينتك يا والدة الاله اكتب لك رايات الغلبه يا قائده محامية واقدم لك الشكر كمنقذه من الشدائد لكن بما ان لك العزه التي لا تحارب تعتقيني من صنوف الشدائد حتى اصرخ اليك
افرحي يا عروسا لا عروس لها
POV:You are Ottoman
Я атеист и кое что не смогу понять. Это странное и фееричное пение, больше выгледещее так как будто сосед решил зделать ремонт и врубил дрель.
bizantiums atomic age theme should have been "dorime mouse"
Eastern Rome was devastated by newly rising nomadic Great Seljuks when Eastern Rome was a large empire, defeated several times by Anatolian Seljuks who were even weaker than Byzantines and finished off by the small Ottoman beylik which flourished on its border. Destinity never gave stronger enemies to Byzantines.
Byzantium's biggest enemy was in tendency to make civil conflicts and the complete incompetence of many of its kings.
@@XenophonSoulis they got beat up by nomads from the middle east, ukraine and their kings incompetence
@@pyroshrimp4073 Well, if the kings were competent, like they were in Basil's time, no nomad could beat that empire. It was really big. And rich. And strong. It had the stability of being based to the poor farmers and not the aristocracy. And these poor farmers were the soldiers that won so many battles in the 9th-11th centuries. But then a lot of instability came and a lot of useless kings and Byzantium crumbled, like every other empire in that place. And it still took several nomadic tribes (plus Western Europe) 4 centuries after Basil's death to completely annihilate an empire of that calibre. 4 centuries is bigger than the life of many great empires and it was only the decay time before Byzantium could be destroyed. It had existed already 7 centuries before 1025 since Constantinople became the capital and 17 centuries since Rome was founded. In its good times, it had many enemies much greater than the Seljuks and the Ottomans (including the Arabs, the West, the Bulgars, the Russians, the Persians), that sometimes attacked in groups, but couldn't beat a strong Byzantium (also answering to OP's claim that Byzantium never had greater enemies). So, the nomads (with the help of the West) only did a small part of the job of destroying Byzantium, the Emperors did the biggest part.
@@XenophonSoulis also another thing byzantium shot itself in the foot by not allying someone to help reatake antolia
@@pyroshrimp4073 They tried, but the church (and thus the people) didn't like it. But at that time different religion was a big deal breaker for alliances and the only serious Orthodox country was Russia, which couldn't necessarily be trusted and had troubles of its own. And the West was asking for too much to accept Byzantium's begging. Also, there was that disagreement between Byzantium and Germany over who was more Roman (hint: neither of them was) and they also disliked each other for that. But they could at least have tried a bit more.