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Diocletian and Maximian
The triumph of Diocletian and Maximian could hardly bear comparison with previous ceremonials marking the entry of Rome’s great heroes into the city after...
The Temple of Jupiter
Through the crowdlined streets of the city, many of whose people had never even seen the Senior Augustus, the procession moved at a majestic...
My sister Fausta
“Please forgive my brother for being a bore, Tribune,” she said with a dazzling smile. “Word of how you stopped the whole army of...
Continually subject to change
They even say that it was not so much by flattery that she made Justinian eat from her hand as by demoniac power. For...
Public offices in Constantinople
In this he was not unique; for those who held the same office before and after him were equally dishonest. So were the Master...
Corruption
FURTHER CORRUPTION IN HIGH PLACES
Now when the Emperor and Theodora dismissed John of Cappadocia, they wished to appoint a successor to his office, and...
Expected similar consideration
Then ,there was a secretary to Justinian named Priscus: an utter villain and Paphlagonian, of a character likely to please his master, to whom...
Queen answered musically
“Yet, Highness, such is my plight. I have creditors to whom I owe money, while others owe money to me. And those whom I...
Superficial difference between them
Not civility, but servility was now the rule, and Theodora was the slave driver. So far had Roman society been corrupted, between the false...
Augustus at Carthage
In Africa and Egypt, what had long been an uneasy peace suddenly erupted into war when a group of five Moorish nations left their...
