Most likely of Scirian ancestry
The pattern Odoacer represents will be familiar by now. He is marked as a barbarian even though his success was entirely Roman. His father,...
Sidonius tells the story of a brave Roman war
The landscape was not without alarms and overreactions, betraying the tension in the air. In a poem of praise for the emperor Majorian, whose...
Transit Gloria Mundi
After Aetius’s death, twenty years unfold in a sequence of events of little interest except to specialists. The historian Procopius, writing 100 years later,...
The Accession of Alexius and Interfamily Power Struggles part 28
Therefore nothing of what had happened deterred Robert from the object he had set himself; and so with the remaining troops (for some by...
The Accession of Alexius and Interfamily Power Struggles part 27
For a heavy fall of snow and the winds rushing down from the mountains churned up the sea violently. Then the waves rose and...
The Accession of Alexius and Interfamily Power Struggles part 26
XII In this way then affairs in the East were lulled to rest. On reaching Dyrrachium Palaeologus sent off a runner with the news...
The Accession of Alexius and Interfamily Power Struggles part 25
On being informed of this, the Emperor directed the soldiers to occupy the villages and buildings recently held by the Turks and to pass...
The Accession of Alexius and Interfamily Power Struggles part 24
XI These were the measures he took for the Western part of the Empire and next he prepared himself against the immediate danger that...
The Accession of Alexius and Interfamily Power Struggles part 23
The sum of money agreed upon and now sent consists of coins stamped with the head of Romanus and of ancient quality. And when...
The Accession of Alexius and Interfamily Power Struggles part 22
X Such then were the precautions taken by the Emperor for Illyria; and he seemed to have firmly secured the towns which at that...
