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Private Istanbul Tours
A lot has been said and written about Istanbul. Still, the city is an endless source of information. It’s definitely worth trying getting to...
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...
Treves and other centers
Constantine himself led an austere life and there was a minimum of luxury in the palace, so the major part of the accumulation in...
The rest of the Empire
Reading the reports of his spies in the rest of the Empire, Constantine sometimes felt like an observer perched high above some giant circus,...
Maxentius and Maximian
“More like Vesuvius in eruption,” Dacius said dryly. “Rome is angry enough to leave the Empire, if it could, but Maxentius and Maximian have...
Constantine had somehow expected
“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...
Illyrian veterans
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...
Galerius prepared carefully
The Empress and her daughter came out just then and Constantine went to call the litter bearers. But from then on, he assigned to...
