Saksagan
War with the Scyths part 13
The Comans returned, fully prepared for war with the Scythians, but not finding them and learning that they had come over the passes, occupied...
Antiochus Strategos part 4
His notices of the Holy Places at Jerusalem, however, are of the highest interest, and some of them are of great archaeological value. Among...
Antiochus Strategos part 6
There before the cross they laid him. Then they began earnestly to implore God, the Maker of all things, to bring them consolation and...
John of Damascus part 29
In both East and West the reverence we pay to images has crystallized into formal ritual. In the Latin Rite the priest is commanded...
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...
Antiochus Strategos part 7
Next he began to inquire how he could put these ideas into effect so that he could despise and renounce the fleeting pleasures of...
War with the Scyths part 9
After saying this and encouraging the others, he was the first to dash like a firebrand upon the Scythians and struck at the first...
War with the Scyths part 14
Overcome by this unforeseen disaster, the father beat his breast for three days and nights with a sling-stone and then died. The interval of...
War with the Scyths part 17
But Tzachas pursued him systematically and did not slacken in rowing. When they approached Chios, Opus managed to anchor his ships first in the...
Alexandria Antioch and Constantinople
In a few cities, the more authoritarian and centralized future began to be enacted. The great cities of the east—Alexandria, Antioch, and Constantinople, and...
