The Conpiracy of Aston part 8
Bohemund’s barbarians
The walls were flanked by towers standing up above it all around and rising as high as eleven feet, which were ascended by...
The Conpiracy of Aston part 7
The configuration of this locality was as follows. The Praetorium stood on a hill, not a hill of rock but of earth, and the...
The Conpiracy of Aston part 6
First he completed a tortoise with a battering-ram, an indescribable object, and rolled it up to the eastern side of the city. And merely...
The Conpiracy of Aston part 5
For the whole of that winter he made plans and examined every comer to see at which point Dyrrachium could be taken. But when...
The Conpiracy of Aston part 4
By this time the day had broken, the Emperor glanced through the writings and recognized that his assassination had been arranged, and sent orders...
The Conpiracy of Aston part 3
Now one Constantine, a eunuch, who had been the table-servant of the Emperor’s father and now waited on the Empress, was standing outside the...
The Conpiracy of Aston part 2
There the man who had just escaped one assassin would have been like to fall under the hands of another, had not the Divine...
The Conpiracy of Aston part 1
The Final Defeat of Bohemond : The Treaty of Devol. (1107-8)
I We were, one and all, astounded at the Emperor’s dignified attitude. But although...
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.
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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...
