『Lost Roman Heroes - Episode 106: Heraclius (Part 6 - The Great Siege)』のカバーアート

Lost Roman Heroes - Episode 106: Heraclius (Part 6 - The Great Siege)

Lost Roman Heroes - Episode 106: Heraclius (Part 6 - The Great Siege)

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In the summer of 626, two empires agreed to end Rome together. Khosrow sent Shahrbaraz, his finest general, to the Asian shore. The Avar Khagan came down from the Danube with eighty thousand men, Slavs and Bulgars and Gepids among them. Between them they would crush Constantinople, and the list of Rome would finally be extinguished. Inside the walls: twelve thousand soldiers with no emperor to lead them. Heraclius was two thousand miles east and had made a very cold calculation, that the City could stand without him. What it had instead was a man almost nobody has heard of. Bonus appears in the sources like a figure stepping out of fog. No great backstory, no famous victories, just a title that meant substitute for the emperor, and forty days in which to earn it. This is the story of those forty days. A moat, three walls and ninety six towers built by a man who never got the credit. A patriarch carrying an icon around the battlements. Ambassadors in pure silk, and what came back across the water in answer. Slav dugouts in the Golden Horn. A signal fire lit at exactly the wrong hour. And a page missing from the only manuscript in the world that records it, taking four days of the greatest siege in Roman history with it. Constantinople had never been breached. In August of 626 it came closer than it ever had, and the man who saved it, Bonus, did it with genius, cold calculation, nerves of steel and subterfuge worthy of his most ancient, and greatest, Roman ancestors.
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