Found 18,498 results for "byzantine"
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Complete...
by Edward Gibbon
Diligence and accuracy are the only merits which an historical writer may ascribe to himself; if any merit indeed can be...
The Stones of Venice
by John Ruskin
I. SINCE the first dominion of men was asserted over the ocean, three thrones, of mark beyond all others, have been set ...
A history of Western architecture
by David Watkin
WESTERN CULTURE AND ARCHITECTURE DERIVE MUCH OF their richness and resonances from the fact that their origins lie outsi...
Labyrinths
by Jorge Luis Borges
I owe the discovery of Uqbar to the conjunction of a mirror and an encyclopedia.
Daphnis and Chloe
by Longus, Otto Schönberger
THERE is in Lesbos a large and beautiful city called Mytilene.
Beasts and Super-Beasts
by Saki
LEONARD BILSITER was one of those people who have failed to find this world attractive or interesting, and who have soug...
The Alexiad
by Anna Comnena, Athanasios Kambylis
THE Emperor Alexius, my father, even before he seized the throne had been of great service to the Roman Empire.
The Secret History
by Procopius, Richard Atwater
In what I have written on the Roman wars up to the present point, the story was arranged in chronological order and as c...
