Saksagan
Theoderic appeared in the late 480s
Or were the Goths even ever there? Numbers and time tell the story. The invasions of Italy of which we know consist of four...
Theoderic and regent of Italy
No surprise, but such words come in a novel that contrasts the bravery and intelligence of fair-haired northerners with the weakness and treachery of...
Sultan Bayezid II Complex
Sultan Bayezid II, while preparing for the conquest of Kili and Akkerman, established the Sultan Bayezid II Complex on May 23, 1484. This complex...
Colosseum afterward
The third grandee, Festus, we have seen already, the most senior of the ex-consuls in all these years, having given the year his name...
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...
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 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 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 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 92
While still subject to the limitations of human nature, they behave as though they were demi-gods among us. For the other attributes of Divinity...
