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...
Military gear the slave shortly
The cubicula assigned to Constantine was barely large enough to contain a sleeping pallet which could be rolled up in the daytime, enlarging the...
Penetrating gray eyes of the Master at Arms
Centurion Dacius was seated behind a table in a room at the end of the long barracks building. His skin was burned to a...
No attention to Constantine
Just inside the compound a sentry leaned upon his spear talking to another soldier, but he paid no attention to Constantine until the youth...