ἀνθρώποισι πᾶσι μέτεστι γινώσκειν ἑωυτοὺς καὶ σωφρονεῖν.
About the year 372 A.D. the Huns, an enormous Tartar horde from beyond the Don and Volga, burst into the lands north of the Euxine, and began to work their way westward. Continue reading “The series of events that led to the catastrophic battle of Adrianople in 378 A.D. and its important consequences”
Constantine, whose victory over his rivals had been secured by his talents as an administrator and a diplomatist no less than by his military skill, was one of those men whose hard practical ability has stamped upon the history of the world a much deeper impress than has been left by many conquerors and legislators of infinitely greater genius. He was a man of that self-contained, self-reliant, unsympathetic type of mind which we recognize in his great predecessor Augustus. Continue reading “The foundation of Constantinople”
This post is mostly a photographic presentation of monuments from Jerash, Jordan. Continue reading “Monuments from Jerash, Jordan”
This post is mostly a photographic presentation of the Theodosian Walls of Constantinople (today Istanbul), Turkey. Continue reading “The Theodosian Walls of Constantinople”
The Roman army had a thousand years of tradition behind it by 284, the accession of Diocletian. Continue reading “The Roman Army from Diocletian to Zeno”
As a result of the battle of Ankara in July of 1402, the Ottomans suffered a crushing defeat by Emir Timur, which caused a brief period of anti-Ottoman restoration in Anatolia and the Balkans. Continue reading “The last ‘Byzantine’ Turks (15th cen. A.D.)”
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