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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Al Kowsky, post: 3298698, member: 97383&quot;]AussieCollector, This morning I did listen to the podcast <b>In Fairness to Phocas</b> with my morning coffee &amp; enjoyed the narrators presentation; then listened to most of the following podcast on Heraclius. The narrator&#039;s historical facts were accurate but he clearly magnified the positive qualities &amp;&nbsp; minimized the shortcomings of Phocas. The poor military planning of Phocas &amp; his inability to unite the masses led to the Persian surge. One plot after another led Phocas to become paranoid &amp; mentally unstable. Phocas in a movement of sheer stupidity decreed that all Jews should be converted to Christianity. This led to Jews in Antioch rebelling against Christians, creating a civil war within the empire at the worst possible time. The narrator failed to mention this along with the hideous forms of torture he employed: the introduction of the gallows &amp; the rack, &amp; the public blindings &amp; mutilations in the Hippodrome. He ended up meeting the same fate as his predecessor Maurice Tiberius, he was slow-tortured, beheaded, &amp; his body chopped up &amp; fed to animals. A very fitting demise...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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