Boethius then sets a dramatic stage for us to contemplate. “You recall” (he tells the allegorical woman called Philosophy, his personification for wisdom itself...
Theoderic, seeing his regime still at risk, immediately sent a delegation from Ravenna to Constantinople, led by Pope John himself, to confirm that assurances...
Our chief sources for the story of Boethius’s end are two. The first is the Anonymus Valesianus, a chronicle of Theoderic’s years in power....
The massive bulk of Diocletian’s palace had restricted Constantine’s view until now. When they rounded it on the way to the barracks, where the...
Constantine’s eyes danced with eagerness and excitement as they rode through the busy streets of Nicomedia. On every side he could see new buildings...
“Then is Rome doomed?”
“Hardly, though I would not be sad to see it wither away. The Empire needs a symbol to represent it in...
