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Antiochus Strategos part 3

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How many souls were slain in the reservoir of Mamel! How many perished of hunger and thirst! How many priests and monks were massacred...

Michael IV part 3

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5. So lived Romanus and such was the funeral with which he was honoured. Despite the work and expense involved in the building of...

Antiochus Strategos part 4

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His notices of the Holy Places at Jerusalem, however, are of the highest interest, and some of them are of great archaeological value. Among...

Michael IV part 4

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9. Clearly it was not a noble beginning for a man promoted to supreme power, as I have shown. Nevertheless, for a short period...

Michael IV part 22

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The Escape Of Alousianus To Bulgaria 45. The war had not yet broken out when a most astonishing thing happened — something nearly as amazing...

Michael IV part 23

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He referred to his father in an impersonal way, as though he himself was a member of another family. He then proceeded to speak...

Antiochus Strategos part 7

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Next he began to inquire how he could put these ideas into effect so that he could despise and renounce the fleeting pleasures of...

Michael IV part 24

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This proposition being acceptable to the emperor, further communications passed between them, in great secrecy, as Alousianus had desired. In accordance with the terms...

Alexius Part 30

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To prevent the King’s becoming too insupportable by an alliance with Robert, he anticipated him in sending offers of peace to Robert, though before...

Antiochus Strategos part 8

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It would be cruel, and unchristian, he said, to deprive them of his protection and to leave them at the mercy of others. Then...

A Day in the Bazaar

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One Autumn Night part 7

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