Festivaler

Boethius knew many years of untroubled days in opulent surroundings. There, tranquil but for those few whispers of jealousy, we will leave Boethius content...

So where were the Goths? They are the invisible men of Theoderic’s Italy. We have seen that their numbers fell far short of a...

If Theoderic’s own old-fashioned Arian religion separated him in principle from Italy’s Catholics, he could modulate that division by generosity, as we have seen...

“Are you sure you aren’t spinning daydreams again?” “Centurions run the army and through it the Empire; you should know that by now. I...

Now the Praetor, whenever he found anything very valuable among the stolen goods that came to his notice, was supposed to give it to...

DEBASING OF THE QUAESTORSHIPHe also had contrived other ways of plundering his subjects (which I will now describe as well as I can) by...

Having thus carried away the public wealth, he turned his eye upon his private subjects. Most of them he immediately robbed of their estates,...

Belisarius, although none of the charges against him were proved, was at the insistence of the Empress relieved of his command by the Emperor;...

But Belisarius, disregarding his word of honor, took no measures to avenge his accomplice’s suffering of such impious treatment as has been told. And...

Later, however, everything that up to this time had been concealed came to light. Discovering Calligonus in the neighborhood, Theodora handed him over to...