The rest of the Empire
Reading the reports of his spies in the rest of the Empire, Constantine sometimes felt like an observer perched high above some giant circus,...
Maxentius and Maximian
“More like Vesuvius in eruption,” Dacius said dryly. “Rome is angry enough to leave the Empire, if it could, but Maxentius and Maximian have...
Treves and other centers
Constantine himself led an austere life and there was a minimum of luxury in the palace, so the major part of the accumulation in...
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...
Heirs of Dionysius
There was in Constantinople a man by the name of Zeno, grandson of that Anthamius who had formerly been Emperor of the West. This...
Distinguishing feature
Another said he stood beside the Emperor as he sat, and of a sudden the face changed into a shapeless mass of flesh, with...
One swoop the estates
I could hardly catalogue all the other people whose estates these two chose to inherit. However, up to the time when the insurrection named...
Naz arenes appearances to his followers
Finally, Theognis told a beautiful story of how devoted women came to the sepulcher where Jesus’ body had been placed, ready to anoint it...
