Vision

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 Empress and her daughter came out just then and Constantine went to call the litter bearers. But from then on, he assigned to...

Tiridates’ laugh boomed out. “How could I, with my back to the river?”Dispatches from the Persian campaign soon began to arrive daily, telling of...

“You have changed,” she said.“I’m almost two years older than when you saw me last,” Constantine reminded her. “But I am still a tribune...

HOW ALL ROMAN CITIZENS BECAME SLAVESTheodora too unceasingly hardened her heart in the practice of inhumanity. What she did, was never to please or...

There was every reason for Constantine to move swiftly with all the troops he could safely take from duty along the Rhine, since Maximian’s...

“You look as if you were roughly treated,” he said. “Who unloosed your bonds? Maximian?”Dacius swore a purple oath. “Don’t tell me you were...

“Like Dacius?” He could imagine the story Maximian had told her and which she seemed to have believed.“Or some others.” She had missed entirely...

Later Theodora saw her mistake and tried to console them, to the public detriment, for she made their new husbands Dukes. Even this brought...