The Whale Which Annoyed Justinian and Other Historical Animals

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Byzantium should have tried to bribe the whale...

ngl starting a video saying that "animal always existed" is a bold choice

Forget whales. Pliny the Younger once told a story about the Dolphin of Hippo. It was about a Roman city in North Africa where a local boy befriended a dolphin, who let him ride it. The boy and his dolphin then became inseparable, and it people from around the area all came to Hippo to see this dolphin. Pliny's uncle, Pliny the Elder also had other accounts of other dolphins that allowed themselves to be petted, fed and even ridden by people. One such dolphin, he claimed, carried a boy in Italy across a bay to school at the city of Pozzuoli.

There's something quite terrifying about there being a giant whale hidden in the waters for 50 years terrorizing hassong ships. Another gem added to the history of Constantinople

By Zeus, it’s Mobius Dickus!!!

Eastern Roman Empire: a center of progress, innovation, cultural exhange and riches Whale: "Nah, I'd win."

Justice for Guinefort

Knowing the Eastern Roman officials, if they captured Porphyrious they would have blinded him and put him in a whale monastery

"Hah, amateurs... Those Eastern Romans were amateurs!" - Brazilian Navy seeing the story of Porphyrios, and remembering what they done to a bunch of porpoises in 1918.

13:12 “legendary ass”

"The legendary ass"

And now the Orcas are ramming rich people's yachts.

11:53 There's something funny about hearing Devin say "pupper"

I thought this was exclusively about Porphyros.

Whale whale whale...what do we have here, an animal episode?

Whales are such gentle beasts, i wonder what could've happened to it that caused it to become so aggressive

Love the video. It’s great when y’all cover unorthodox and obscure history that no one else really talks about. I learned a lot from this video and all of it was interesting and very relevant to our history despite not being talked about as much as it should

Maybe next video will be about the beast of Gévaudan

Came for the ornery orca, stayed for the legendary talking ass.