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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
Anna Comnena: • Internet History Sourcebooks: Medieval Sourcebook
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)
Fourteen centuries later, Cleopatra was not so lucky. After three years of joint rule with her brother, she was deposed and sent into exile. Instead of taking this tamely, she assembled an army and turned to the most accessible powerful Roman for help.
Ron Druett • She Captains
The Greeks after this assembled at Corinth and agreed to invade Persia with Alexander for their leader. Many of their chief statesmen and philosophers paid him visits of congratulation, and he hoped that Diogenes of Sinope, who was at that time living at Corinth, would do so. As he, however, paid no attention whatever to Alexander and remained quie
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