Saksagan
Zoe and Theodora part 89
To blazes with all those who tell us there is a spiritual life, and who then declare that its direction lies in the hands...
Zoe and Theodora part 91
Her councillors, moreover, should have impressed this on her, instead of imagining that she would live for ever, always at the same age, or...
Zoe and Theodora part 97
116. In September 1047.
117. The army of the East was at this time engaged in Armenia Magna.
118. In the part near the monastery of...
Zoe and Theodora part 93
It is not my purpose at the moment to describe the object of their choice, but I will say that the man chosen was...
Zoe and Theodora part 85
2. Convinced that she was doing what was right, the empress proceeded to use her authority in all matters of government, quite openly. Without...
Zoe and Theodora part 88
9. This will explain why the gentleman I was talking about, by acting the philosopher in matters that were not the proper object of...
Zoe and Theodora part 90
If I had any information I was on no account to conceal it from her. This was not the first occasion on which I...
Zoe and Theodora part 95
97. Sclerena was a niece of Pulcheria, sister of Romanus Sclerus and grand-daughter of Bardas. She had shared Constantine’s exile on Lesbos. She was...
Zoe and Theodora part 96
105. The protospatharius Pardus owed his appointment as successor to Maniaces not to any outstanding ability but to the fact that he was known...
Zoe and Theodora part 94
86. Herodotus, the famous Greek historian, is said to have beer the son of Lyxes and Dryo, and was born at Halicarnassus in 484...
