Motives Behind the Macedonian Committees
While I can't say that all members of the Macedonian Committees have bad intentions, it's clear from studying the situation that, in practice, the...
A Plan Found in a Captured Bulgarian’s Clothing
Sir A. Biliotti, the former British Consul-General in Salonika, shared a summary of a plan found in the clothes of a captured Bulgarian fighter....
Discontent in Macedonia
In Macedonia, everyone was unhappy due to oppression, including both the Turkish and Christian populations. The oppressed Turks had no one to turn to...
The boundary between the human and the divine
Reducing these various stories and assertions to a single set of dialectically defensible assertions that all can agree on has proved, over two millennia,...
Theodosius left behind
What Theodosius left behind, more important than his sons, was a religious landscape denuded of the familiar and the emergence, by encouragement and by...
Constantine postponed baptism
Constantine postponed baptism until he was on his deathbed to assure himself of heaven without risking post-baptismal relapse. The half century that followed saw...
Diocletian and Maximian
The triumph of Diocletian and Maximian could hardly bear comparison with previous ceremonials marking the entry of Rome’s great heroes into the city after...
The Temple of Jupiter
Through the crowdlined streets of the city, many of whose people had never even seen the Senior Augustus, the procession moved at a majestic...
Comparison to the new officials
The Emperor was always very careful to choose for his agents men who were truly of all people the worst scoundrels; and he had...
Junilus completed the measure
When Junilus completed the measure of his life, Constantine was appointed Quaestor: a man not unacquainted with law, but exceeding young, and without actual...
