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Discontent in Macedonia
In Macedonia, everyone was unhappy due to oppression, including both the Turkish and Christian populations. The oppressed Turks had no one to turn to...
Historians from Herodotus to Procopius
Historians from Herodotus to Procopius recount ancient battles with discouraging sameness over most of 1,000 years, for good reason. Fortified vehicles are the most...
Procopius confines his story to wars
Procopius confines his story to wars, not peace. As a result, he gives us only the tip of the iceberg for the story that...
Theodahad first shows up in the record
Theodahad first shows up in the record in a strongly worded letter to him from Theoderic, who had to remind him that scripture says...
The boundary between the human and the divine
Reducing these various stories and assertions to a single set of dialectically defensible assertions that all can agree on has proved, over two millennia,...
Theodosius left behind
What Theodosius left behind, more important than his sons, was a religious landscape denuded of the familiar and the emergence, by encouragement and by...
Constantine postponed baptism
Constantine postponed baptism until he was on his deathbed to assure himself of heaven without risking post-baptismal relapse. The half century that followed saw...
Wealth of Romans
HOW HE SEIZED ALL THE WEALTH OF THE ROMANS AND THREW IT AWAY
How he seized all wealth I will next discuss: recalling first a...
Scirtus River flooded Edessa
However, punishment for these offenses was mostly directed against the Greens.
Furthermore the persecution of the Samaritans and the so-called heretics filled the Roman realm...
Boundaries of Persia
Such were the results of the wars in Libya and in Europe. Meanwhile the Saracens were continuously making inroads on the Romans of the...
