Saksagan
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...
Being in the Emperors own household
The three years spent at Nicomedia while attaining his majority were in many ways a period of frustration for Constantine. For although he was...
The Emperor favors in Nicomedia
“Congratulations upon your appointment as an officer of the Imperial Guard,” he said. “It is said in Nicomedia that the Emperor favors you and...
