latin4school

Music and vocals by Farya Faraji. The Hikanatoi were an elite section of the Byzantine army based near Constantinople. They were founded in the 9th century and ended in the 11th. Please take note that this isn't actual Byzantine music, nor does it seek to be--it's modern "Epic" music which mixes a "film soundtrack" style with Modern Greek musical language to produce an image of Byzantine civilisation, not a reconstructive work. I don't claim any authenticity with this piece beyond a very general Greek and Byzantine "vibe," nothing more. For the pronunciation, I tried doing some research to reproduce the pronunciation of very Late Antiquity to Early Byzantine times--the "x" sound in "pataxadi" would have likely been a mix of "kz" instead of "ks", and the "ντ" cluster would have been pronounced literally as it is written, as a combination of "n" and "t" pronounced together in...