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Instead, this session was an attempt to move the discussion forward without histrionics and public posturing, and one must give Justinian full credit for...

By comparison, Severus the Sober embodied a newly serious age. He was born in Sozopolis (near modern Konya) in Asia Minor, where his grandfather...

“I named him Augustus,” Crocus protested. “With the army of Gaul behind us we can easily ”“I must accept only the lesser title, until...

Galerius in NicomediaIt was midnight before Constantine was able to step down from the throne chair of the audience chamber in his father’s now...

His brief speech finished the official panegyrists had spent hours earlier delivering the customary final orations in honor of the dead Constantine turned toward...

“Your father writes whenever he can,” Helena said as they moved to the cushioned couch and low table, where the old servant who had...

“Maximian has a son.”“Maxentius is nothing but a cruel and oppressive libertine,” Helena said with scorn. “In Africa he put thousands of innocent people...

Now, though Rome clung desperately to its former glory, and the Senate continued to meet there, its pronouncements and decisions turned out to be...

Such were the constant afflictions of mankind under the rule of Justinian and Theodora; for there was no release from war or any other...

For Cabades retired after doing hardly any damage to the buildings, but Chosroes burned to the foundations everything he took, and left greater ruin...