Meeting the Priest and the Bulgarian Revolutionary
My dragoman and I were riding ahead through a forest when we came around a bend and suddenly saw a priest on a pony...
Antique Hunt in Koritza
When I arrived in Koritza, my dragoman told me that I could find interesting antiques in the town. I asked the men who were...
The Wedding Celebration
There was a lot of excitement and music at the wedding, as if the couple had been in love for many years. The groom,...
Formal main boulevard entered the Augustaion
The best approach to the palace was from the west, on foot. The great middle street of the city drew together those who arrived...
The church reopened at the Christmas season
When the dome collapsed, Paul tells us, clouds of dust darkened the day, the earth shook, but Christ protected his church and no one...
One Blue and one Green
And so in 532, when he ordered the execution of two criminals prominent in the factions—one Blue and one Green—he poked the hornet’s nest...
Piet rebellion
“Galerius shall pay for thisl” Constantius said grimly. “I let him name Severus Caesar in Italy to avoid any controversy with Maxen tius, while...
Landowners
HOW LANDOWNERS WERE RUINED
I will now tell how he ruined the landowners everywhere; although it were a sufficient indication of their sufferings to refer...
The householders in Constantinople
Such were the constant afflictions of mankind under the rule of Justinian and Theodora; for there was no release from war or any other...
Huns and barbarous Saracens
For Cabades retired after doing hardly any damage to the buildings, but Chosroes burned to the foundations everything he took, and left greater ruin...
