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Anna Comnena: • Internet History Sourcebooks: Medieval Sourcebook
Though political power was usually a male privilege in Byzantium, a striking feature of the Byzantine tales is the prominence of women as political play... See more
Edmund White • The Misunderstood Byzantine Princess and Her Magnum Opus
It is said that when Pausanias came to him and complained of his treatment, Alexander answered him by quoting the line from the Medea of Euripides, in which she declares that she will be revenged upon “The guardian, and the bridegroom, and the bride,” alluding to Attalus, Philip, and Kleopatra.
Plutarch • Parallel Lives: Complete
Alexander the Great: ‘I am dying with the help of too many physicians.’
Susie Dent • Dent's Modern Tribes: The Secret Languages of Britain
She accompanied the Emperor on most of his campaigns despite fourteen pregnancies over a period of nineteen years.
Anne Davison • THE MUGHAL EMPIRE ('In Brief' Books for Busy People Book 7)
Porphyrios (whale)
The Res Gestae is a rich source of detail about Augustus’ career and the Roman world of his day. It starts with a delicately euphemistic description of his rise to power, which entirely omits any mention of the pogrom (‘I liberated the state oppressed by the power of a faction’ is how he refers to his clash with either Antony or Brutus and Cassius)
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