It’s one of the great poetic coincidences of history that the Byzantines blinded people to remove them from political life (one of the most famous cases their talented general Belisarius that brought so much acclaim to Justinian’s rule got his peepers poked out) and when the 4th Crusade sacked Constantinople in 1204 one of the crusade’s leaders was Enrico Dandalo, the blind doge of Venice.
I’d go for the eyes
Even if the trauma didn’t do him in, he’s now old and blind
People like him don’t do too good like that
good instincts
Huh
I don’t know if it’s a good thing that I think like a Byzantine politician, but I’m not surprised
It’s one of the great poetic coincidences of history that the Byzantines blinded people to remove them from political life (one of the most famous cases their talented general Belisarius that brought so much acclaim to Justinian’s rule got his peepers poked out) and when the 4th Crusade sacked Constantinople in 1204 one of the crusade’s leaders was Enrico Dandalo, the blind doge of Venice.