Centuries emperormakers
In spite of all the beauty around him, the peaceful and almost bucolic life of Salonae held no lure to an active and ambitious...
HOW BELATED JEALOUSY AFFECTED BELISARIUS’S MILITARY JUDGMENT
But Theodosius refused to leave his monastery, saying he was completely resolved to give himself forever to the cloistered life. This noble pronouncement, however,...
Theodosius came to Italy
And it was not long after this that Belisarius was persuaded by his wife to kill Constantine. What happened at that time concerning Presidius...
Increased immeasurably under the rigorous training
So a year passed and by its end Constantine who showed all the natural instincts of a fine soldier and particularly a cavalryman was...
Usually young men of noble birth
Each army had been commanded originally by a consul responsible to the Senate, but now a general responsible to one of the two Emperors,...
The officer candidates at the copper basins
In the barracks after the run they had time only to splash their faces and bodies with water, the soldiers at a long trough...
Endless discomfort of a soldier’s life
Now, the harmonious structure and great charm of the Caesar’s writings are well-known to all who have chanced to take a look at his...
Caesar Nicephorus
But he who undertakes the “role” of an historian must sink his personal likes and dislikes, and often award the highest praise to his...
THE ALEXIAD OF ANNA COMNENA
I time in its irresistible and ceaseless flow carries along on its flood all created things, and drowns them in the depths of obscurity,...