Nistoper

Constantinople’s rulers still saw the riches of worlds flow into their hands, and Constantinople grew and flourished in consequence. The supreme urban achievement in...

Emperors kept Constantinople at the center of imperial ambition for I,6OO years. In the fifth century, Theodosius II surrounded it with walls worthy of...

Everything we know about Justinian similarly veils him in his robes of state and hides him in his palace. The scandalous stories that circulated...

Reading the reports of his spies in the rest of the Empire, Constantine sometimes felt like an observer perched high above some giant circus,...

“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 himself led an austere life and there was a minimum of luxury in the palace, so the major part of the accumulation in...

In spite of all the beauty around him, the peaceful and almost bucolic life of Salonae held no lure to an active and ambitious...

It was a clever scheme, Constantine conceded. By burying him in the East, Galerius would avoid the trouble with Constantius that would surely come,...

“Don’t tell me you want to stay, after moping around like a lovesick swain for three months.”“I intend to go to Nicomedia, if only...

Now the Praetor, whenever he found anything very valuable among the stolen goods that came to his notice, was supposed to give it to...