Asian provinces of Alexander’s empire
Alexander’s Persian empire collapsed after his death and fell into pieces. The Seleucid kings who prevailed in the Asian provinces of Alexander’s empire, notional...
Sunni Muslims of Iraq
Early and late, these frontier encounters changed little. The division of the lands remained what it is today: one population in the more mountainous...
Roman empire in Justinian’s stubby fingers
WHAT WAS TO BE DONE?
Before setting out to describe the unweaving of the Roman empire in Justinian’s stubby fingers, we should pause to think...
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...
Alexander more than ever
This man immediately decided to deprive them of all this. When Justinian, Emperor of the Romans, learned of this economy, he was greatly pleased,...
Scruples against profiting
He put a bitter and perpetual tax on the sale of bread, which the day laborers, the poor and the infirm could not help...
Appointed one at Rome
Of what is left to tell, this is worth mentioning. Each year two Roman consuls were appointed: one at Rome, the other at Constantinople....
Prior to the arrival of the army a Roman fleet
Seen the next morning, the city itself was only a low white mass on the horizon. But as the advancing troops grew near its...
