Zoe and Theodora part 15
I soon mastered the rhetoric enough to be able to distinguish the central theme of an argument and logically connect it with my main...
Zoe and Theodora part 14
32. No man was better endowed by Nature with qualities that endeared him to his subjects. He was a good mixer, winning everyone’s affections...
Zoe and Theodora part 13
The doors of the senate were thrown open to nearly all the rascally vagabonds of the market, and the honour was conferred not on...
Zoe and Theodora part 12
Consider how brief are the moments when the sea is calm and peaceful, and how at other times it is swollen, or lashed by...
Zoe and Theodora part 11
26. Such is the method I have adopted in composing eulogies of Constantine, but now that I have undertaken to write a history, this...
Zoe and Theodora part 10
24. Philosophers will tell you that the vain and superfluous are of all things on earth the most despicable. For them the object of...
Zoe and Theodora part 9
22. Several persons, on more than one occasion, have urged me to write this history. Among them were not only men in authority and...
Zoe and Theodora part 8
She spoke openly on the subject to her personal bodyguard and household staff, and when she saw that they were unanimous in their support...
Zoe and Theodora part 7
Alliance with this family conferred on the young man extraordinary brilliance, but he still held no important office. Basil’s advisers, because of the hatred...
Zoe and Theodora part 6
Under the pretence or giving him a more important office, he was posted away from the capital. That biased the empress in his favour...
