Michael IV part 1
Michael IV 1034 – 1041
1. Such was the manner of Romanus’s death, after a reign of five and a half years. The empress Zoe,...
Antiochus Strategos part 2
On the contrary they destroyed persons of every age, massacred them like animals, cut them into pieces, mowed sundry of them down like cabbages,...
Michael IV part 2
3. This proclamation was arranged in the evening by the new emperor’s personal friends. Immediately afterwards, a twofold order was sent to the City...
Antiochus Strategos part 3
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
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
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
9. Clearly it was not a noble beginning for a man promoted to supreme power, as I have shown. Nevertheless, for a short period...
Antiochus Strategos part 5
I know that it may seem very bold on my part to write this book when there are so many holy priests capable of...
Alexius Part 14
But Bryennius, in fear of his life resembled a maniac, and was by no means in need of rest, for how should a man...
Antiochus Strategos part 12
If Miletus is meant, the pilgrims must have landed there before reaching Patara. The only place between Patara and Chelidonia is a town,...
