Exploring Ottoman-Era Tombs and Complexes in Istanbul
The Gülnuş Emetullah Valide Sultan Tomb: A Symbol of Maternal Reverence
The Gülnuş Emetullah Valide Sultan Tomb, erected between 1708 and 1711 within the Yeni...
Not only Theodora but also Belisarius
Procopius slanders not only Theodora but also Belisarius, Justinian’s most successful general. Belisarius’s Antonina could not be accused of low origins, but Procopius blames...
Procopius of Caesarea wrote the history of Justinian’s wars
Procopius of Caesarea wrote the history of Justinian’s wars in eight books, and in so doing he accomplished exactly what Justinian wanted, making the...
Severus and Jacob Baraddaeus
The year 536 was a turning point. In that year, the deposed Severus and Jacob Baraddaeus, the two leaders of the monophysite community, accepted...
Dura on the Euphrates
“I shall not ask you to go inside, Tribune. My daughter and I will be perfectly safe.”
“I must not leave your presence,” Constantine said...
The church at Ephesus
“Wherefore, take unto you the whole armor of God that you may be able to stand in the evil day, having your loins girt...
Theodora was still too young
When this woman saw the populace assembled in the amphitheater, she placed laurel wreaths on her daughters’ heads and in their hands, and sent...
Nubian slaves Diocletian
Constantine had come to know and admire Empress Prisca during his stay in Nicomedia. Her daughter, Valeria, wife of the Caesar of the East,...
Anyone put Justinian’s ways
How could anyone put Justinian’s ways into words? These and many even worse vices were disclosed in him as in no other mortal nature...
Accurately together and sewed the body
Domitian’s wife was of free birth and otherwise noble; and neither had she herself ever done wrong to anybody, nor had she assented in...
