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 66
155. The actor fellow, of whom I spoke some time ago, had been in love with this princess before, and he was successful in...
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 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 84
There were certain factors that made her influence with them all-powerful: the fact that she had been born in the purple; her gentle character;...
Zoe and Theodora part 60
The clown put his arms round the emperor’s neck and kissed him, over and over again, on the face ‘Sir,’ said he, ‘he has...
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...
The Lost Phcebe part 12
Another thing that puzzled him greatly after a time and after many hundreds of inquiries was, when he no longer had any particular door-...
