List of Byzantine emperors

This is a list of the Emperors of the late Roman Empire, called Byzantine.

Related Topics:
Emperors - Roman Empire - Byzantine

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The title of all Emperors listed preceding Heraclius was officially Augustus, although various other titles such as Dominus were used as well. For official purposes, their names were preceded by Imperator Caesar Flavius and followed by Augustus. Following Heraclius, the title became the Greek Basileus (Gr. Βασιλευς), which had formerly meant "king" but now was used in place of Augustus. Other (and to Roman minds, lesser) kings were titled by the neologism Rigas (Gr. Ριγας, from the Lat. "Rex"). Autokrator (Gr. Αυτοκρατωρ) was also frequently used, along with a plethora of more hyperbolic titles - with grandiloquence typically in inverse proportion to actual power, - including Kosmokrator ("Master of the Universe") and Chronokrator ("Lord of All Time"). The emperors of the 15th century alone were occasionally self-styled as Basileus ton Hellinon, "Emperor of the Greeks."

Related Topics:
Augustus - Dominus - Imperator - Caesar - Flavius - Basileus - Rigas - Autokrator

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