Saksagan

And then there is Theoderic’s tomb. Built just outside the city walls of Ravenna, close to the harbor where ships from Constantinople and elsewhere in the Mediterranean docked, this looming structure astonishes visitors to...

Yet we have nearly 150 letters from Theoderic’s time that profess to be from his own hand, and come at least from the hands of those who served his will and heeded it most...

“Just how ill is my father?” Constantine asked the secretary when they were outside the room.Eumenius gave him a quick, appraising glance. “He had a serious attack two months ago, but is much better...

“Cross over to Britain with you and help subdue the Piets.” “As my secondincommand? You’ve been kept from your just dues long enough.”Constantine knew his father well enough to be sure the offer was...

“You were right to ask, Augustus.” Adrian forced his voice under control. “After three days in the hands of the Praetorians, my niece threw herself into the Tiber. I gave up everything I possessed...

Dacius came in and wiped the sweat from his forehead with his forearm, although the air outside was not warm. “Well, she’s safely out of the way,” he said. “But don’t ever get into...

Such were the constant afflictions of mankind under the rule of Justinian and Theodora; for there was no release from war or any other of these calamities in all their time.While I am on...

For Cabades retired after doing hardly any damage to the buildings, but Chosroes burned to the foundations everything he took, and left greater ruin in his track. Yet to these remaining sufferers, for whom...

HOW LANDOWNERS WERE RUINEDI will now tell how he ruined the landowners everywhere; although it were a sufficient indication of their sufferings to refer to what I have just written about the officials who...

Justinian, unexpectedly restored to health, straightway undertook to put Theodotus to death as a poisoner and a magician. But since he had no proof on which to condemn the man, he tortured friends of...