Byzantimania!
Just when you thought the Byzantine Empire couldn’t become more popular, along comes an amazing New York Times piece about Lars Brownworth, a history teacher at the private Stony Brook School in New York.
Brownworth turned his lectures on the Byzantine Empire into podcasts, and they have become one of the most popular downloads on iTunes, attracting some 140,000 listeners.
“I can’t believe it’s that many people,” Brownworth said. “I always thought the only one listening was going to be me.”
You can check out Brownworth’s lectures here. They range from 14 to 32 minutes in length.
This story made me think about how things work out sometimes. Timing, they say, is everything.
