Saksagan
Zoe and Theodora part 3
The virtue of well-doing is most characteristic of those who govern, and where discrimination is made, where the particular circumstances and the fortune of...
Zoe and Theodora part 2
When all was ready, the other business was carried on. There were lawsuits to be settled, questions of public interest, or contributions of money,...
Zoe and Theodora part 1
Zoe and Theodora 1042
Constantine 1042-1055
Theodora 1055 – 1056
1. So the Empire passed into the hands of the two sisters, and for the first time...
Zoe and Theodora part 62
He calculated that there was no difficulty in murdering the emperor, and secondly, he himself had the keys to the secret entrances: he had...
Zoe and Theodora part 68
160. As her life drew to its appointed close, when she was on the point of dying, slight changes made their appearance in her...
Zoe and Theodora part 83
In fact, he sent me other messages, of quite a different tenor, in which he congratulated me on preferring the spiritual life and actually...
Zoe and Theodora part 73
173. I could, if I wished, tell you other anecdotes of this sort about Constantine. There are things which a historian would probably reject,...
Zoe and Theodora part 44
These men had been quartered in the depths of Iberia, where they were engaged in repelling a barbarian invasion. There was no hope of...
Zoe and Theodora part 63
And when those who had been ordered to do so had loosed him from his chains, Constantine gently urged him to make his defence;...
Zoe and Theodora part 76
182. These acts are of doubtful interpretation — it depends on your point of view — but there was nothing at all moderate about...
