Saksagan
Zoe and Theodora part 47
112. The emperor, after he had recovered his self-composure, thought it would be disgraceful if he did not get together some soldiers to oppose...
Zoe and Theodora part 46
110. As no favourable reply was forthcoming from the persons to whom these remarks had been addressed — actually they poured forth a torrent...
Zoe and Theodora part 45
At break of day they were all in position before the walls, not in a confused mob, nor massed together in one great body,...
Zoe and Theodora part 44
These men had been quartered in the depths of Iberia, where they were engaged in repelling a barbarian invasion. There was no hope of...
Zoe and Theodora part 43
For his part, once he was garbed in an emperor’s apparel, he lorded it over his supporters in a dictatorial and truly imperial fashion,...
Zoe and Theodora part 42
102. It happened that at that particular time there was a Macedonian colony living in the neighbourhood of the city. Prominent among them were...
Zoe and Theodora part 41
With old-fashioned arrogance she would find fault with most of his actions. She would find fresh causes for complaint and then, when she saw...
Zoe and Theodora part 40
At this stage I would like to describe a second revolt against the emperor, a revolt more terrible even than the first. Let me...
Zoe and Theodora part 39
97. Personally, I know of no power of divination possessed by the man. I attribute the phenomenon to an easy-going and carefree disposition. Men...
Zoe and Theodora part 38
Our men, meanwhile, engaged them with stones from above and fought them off with their cutlasses. Greek fire, too, was hurled at them, and...
