Saksagan

A lot has been said and written about Istanbul. Still, the city is an endless source of information. It’s definitely worth trying getting to...

And in the evening, songs were sung in the tents and shelters, songs we shall never hear, for the real life of ancient times...

In governmental terms, a conservative observer would say that the provincial lines had been redrawn a bit, and new chief local rulers were in...

This moralizing reading appears twenty years later, from the skeptical historian Procopius of Constantinople, and he burdens it with several overlays. It shows the...

The evening meal, which Constantine had been invited to share with his father, turned out to be a staff conference of the leading commanders...

“Why not, if Bonar can be brought to terms? After all, Carausius ruled for a while there. If he hadn’t wanted Gaul too, and...

“They will live with me,” Crocus said at once. “I would not hear of it being otherwise.”“Perhaps that is just as well,” Eumenius agreed....

“My first duty is to you, Dominus.”“Not unless you’re a fool, which I don’t think you are. Every man’s first duty is to himself,...

All of this was known, of course, to Galerius and Maximian through the spies they maintained in the territory of Constantius, as well as...

Theognis looked deep into the eyes of the younger man, as if searching for a reason to believe Constantine was speaking the truth. Finally...