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 by the sword! How many infants were crushed under foot,...
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, so that all alike had severally to drain the cup...
Antiochus Strategos part 1
Antiochus Strategos: The Sack of Jerusalem (614)
Byzantine law granted toleration to Jews , although there were occasional attempts at forced conversion , but there was a general prejudice against Jews. The following account of...
The Conpiracy of Aston part 33
They are these:-the city of Antioch in Coele-Syria with its fortifications and its dependency together with Suetium situated on the sea-coast; Dux with all its dependencies, together with the place called Cavcas; the place...
Eudocia 1067 part 35
289. Constantine, betrothed to Helena the daughter of Robert Guiscard, but later to Anna Comnena. He probably died before she was of marriageable age.
290. Sophocles, Ajax, 293.
291. Cf. note 289.
292. Sophocles, Ajax, 551.
293. Andronicus...
Eudocia 1067 part 34
280. This Crispinus had joined Romanus on his first campaign. Previously he had been in Italy. As he was not treated with the consideration which he thought was his due, he revolted (Easter, 1069)...
Eudocia 1067 part 33
261. The leaders of the peace party were Psellus himself, Nicephorus Palaeologus and John Ducas.262. Spring 1069. This campaign was indecisive, though the enemy took Iconium.
263. The probable reason is that Romanus dared not...
Eudocia 1067 part 32
This eunuch suggested to the Patriarch that his brother Bardas should marry the empress. Xiphilinus, flattered by this proposal, consulted the Senate, but did not press his brother’s claims (Bardas was quite unsuitable for...
Eudocia 1067 part 31
234. The City Prefect and several nobles were implicated in a plot to kill the emperor on St. George’s Day (1060), but they were only punished by the confiscation of all their property (Scylitzes...
Eudocia 1067 part 30
212. The Patzinaks crossed the Danube (Ister) it 1059. The Hungarians also threatened the Romans but peace was arranged with them. The campaign against the Patzinaks was almost brought to a successful conclusion, but...
