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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;+VGO.DVCKS, post: 6410611, member: 110504&quot;]Terrific coins and blog, [USER=26430]@Curtis[/USER].&nbsp; I couldn&#039;t resist looking for the old PBS documentary on the &#039;Justinian Plague,&#039; from the program, &#039;Secrets of the Dead.&#039;&nbsp; Sadly, YouTube only yielded a series of 10-minute segments.&nbsp; But here&#039;s a radio show, from a favorite BBC program.&nbsp; (...As cool of a &quot;blog&quot; (--<i>this</i>: Not) as you&#039;re likely to run across, with academics routinely on the panel of each program.&nbsp; And it&#039;s Free!)</p><p><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000rc43" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000rc43" rel="nofollow">https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000rc43</a></p><p>It&#039;s worth emphasizing that the same plague affected any number of polities in the region, including, for one conspicuous instance, Aksum (/Axum).&nbsp; From being one of the premiere powers of late Antiquity (notably in diplomatic contact with Justinian), it rapidly declined.&nbsp; From the 6th century, Aksumite coins eloquently demonstrate this --along with evident Byzantine influence on the motifs (facing portraits, for one).&nbsp; In the Aksumite series, it&#039;s from this point that late Koine Greek legends begin to start being supplanted by ones in the native Ge&#039;ez (effectively proto-Amharic), on a large scale.&nbsp; Earlier in the 5th and 6th centuries, some of them are bilingual.&nbsp; The expansion of Ge&#039;ez in the legends seems to symptomize a contraction of Aksum&#039;s international engagement, both on mercantile and political levels.</p><p>(...Considered apologizing for the digression, but in the present context, I doubt there was one.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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