Transit Gloria Mundi
After Aetius’s death, twenty years unfold in a sequence of events of little interest except to specialists. The historian Procopius, writing 100 years later,...
Zheravna Festival
Private tours Bulgaria. Bulgaria is no different from any other country in the world. It has its own history, heroes, legends. It surely had...
Lulu`s Triumph part 6
“What are you doing here, Donna Sofia Santangelo? Are you reading?”“Yes, I was reading.”“And you did not even care to stand on the balcony?”“And...
Michael IV part 12
The Empress’s Adoption of Michael**48 and his Promotion to Caesar22.’A very easy measure,’ answered John, ‘and all ready. If our brother **49 were not...
Sidonius tells the story of a brave Roman war
The landscape was not without alarms and overreactions, betraying the tension in the air. In a poem of praise for the emperor Majorian, whose...
Eumieus` Tale 1
The story below has been copied from www.doholiday.com. You can read the rest of the story on Eumieus Tale.Ancient GreeceThere is no land without...
Lulu`s Triumph part 7
“No; he is going to his club, where there is a directors` meeting. I am going to profit by it and go to the...
Michael IV part 13
24. What had taken place was, in reality, the beginning of mighty disasters in the future, and what was, to all appearances, the foundation...
Most likely of Scirian ancestry
The pattern Odoacer represents will be familiar by now. He is marked as a barbarian even though his success was entirely Roman. His father,...
St. John`s Eve part 7
My late grandfather`s aunt was somewhat surprised at seeing Peter at the tavern, at an hour when good men go to morning mass; and...
