Maximian regarded
Constantine had no reason to suspect that Maximian regarded him as anything other than simply the tribune who headed Diocletian’s personal guard, until he...
Fausta was quite as lovely
“You will be free. I promise it.”
And free he was not entirely to his surprise to meet her chair the next afternoon, according to...
Fausta assured him
“This will be ours one day,” Fausta assured him, running her finger across the marble boundaries of nations and seas. “The whole of it,...
Inflicted on practically
Later Theodora saw her mistake and tried to console them, to the public detriment, for she made their new husbands Dukes. Even this brought...
Hundred Harlots
HOW SHE SAVED FIVE HUNDRED HARLOTS FROM A LIFE OF SIN
I have told earlier in this narrative what she did to Belisarius, Photius and...
Roman citizen of good standing
Then there was Basanius, one of the Green faction, a prominent young man, who incurred her anger by making some uncomplimentary remark. Basanius, warned...
Chapter VI – Byzantium
One of the oddities Byzantine studies is that it has long attracted homosexual scholars, but virtually none of them have written about Byzantine homosexuality....
Rejecting the commentaries
But the Mishnah, or as they call it the second tradition, we prohibit entirely. For it is not part of the sacred books, nor...
APPENDIX NOVELLA 146 OF JUSTINIAN
8.II.553. Nov.146. Justinian to Areobindas, P.P.
A Permission granted to the Hebrews to read the Sacred Scriptures according to Tradition, in Greek, Latin or any...
Constantinople in the month of August
He himself at once set out from Constantinople in the month of August in the fourth Indiction, leaving Isaac in the capital to carry...
