B46

The best approach to the palace was from the west, on foot. The great middle street of the city drew together those who arrived from different gates, leading them southeast to city center. The...

When the dome collapsed, Paul tells us, clouds of dust darkened the day, the earth shook, but Christ protected his church and no one was killed: there was no defiling death in the holy...

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 once too often. When the scaffold for their public killing...

Constantine looked at Crocus and saw the same bewilderment in the eyes of the young Frank that he felt himself. The lance used by the equites in battle was a lighter and longer version...

At the metallic command, both lines turned slightly at full gallop, passing through each other’s ranks so closely that Constantine felt tin’ breath of Crocus’ charger on his cheek and saw the fire of...

“Caesar Galerius rode in from Sirmium” yesterday, especially for the Augustalia,” he said. “Diocletian is always glad to delegate a reviewing chore to someone else.”Court rumor said that Galerius exerted a strong influence upon...