Saksagan

A lot has been said and written about Istanbul. Still, the city is an endless source of information. It’s definitely worth trying getting to...

Constantinople’s rulers still saw the riches of worlds flow into their hands, and Constantinople grew and flourished in consequence. The supreme urban achievement in...

Emperors kept Constantinople at the center of imperial ambition for I,6OO years. In the fifth century, Theodosius II surrounded it with walls worthy of...

Everything we know about Justinian similarly veils him in his robes of state and hides him in his palace. The scandalous stories that circulated...

In the end Constantine had been left no choice except to order Dacius to find Fausta, or at least try to learn where she...

The mists of the night had still not lifted from the countryside when they had taken to the fields in a southward direction outside...

“It will be well planned, you can wager on that,” Dacius agreed. “But that’s a game two can play. Now we’d better get a...

The law of nature is that which she has taught all animals; a law not peculiar to the human race, but shared by all...

“You look as if you were roughly treated,” he said. “Who unloosed your bonds? Maximian?”Dacius swore a purple oath. “Don’t tell me you were...

“Like Dacius?” He could imagine the story Maximian had told her and which she seemed to have believed.“Or some others.” She had missed entirely...