Private Istanbul Tours
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...
Justinian`s world
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
In governmental terms, a conservative observer would say that the provincial lines had been redrawn a bit, and new chief local rulers were in...
Skeptical historian Procopius of Constantinople
This moralizing reading appears twenty years later, from the skeptical historian Procopius of Constantinople, and he burdens it with several overlays. It shows the...
Across the mouth of the Mare Adriaticum
The mists of the night had still not lifted from the countryside when they had taken to the fields in a southward direction outside...
Between Nicomedia and Sirmium
In the end Constantine had been left no choice except to order Dacius to find Fausta, or at least try to learn where she...
Constantine stood in an upper room
“It will be well planned, you can wager on that,” Dacius agreed. “But that’s a game two can play. Now we’d better get a...
Waiting for Maxentius
“And then on to Rome! He who has the city holds the key to the Empire.”
“Tell me,” Dacius said. “Has there ever been a...
River crossing were certain
Antioch and safety were still at least three days or more of hard riding away through an area that was certain to be heavily...
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...
