Exploring Bird Watching Opportunities in Istanbul
Istanbul, with its diverse geography, offers abundant opportunities for bird watching enthusiasts. From the lush forests along the Black Sea to the farmlands near...
Antioch and the larger Egypt behind Alexandria
The fourth and last piece of advice that even a contemporary might have given Justinian and that he should have heeded was straightforward—to take...
Coming down through the Caucusus
For that boundary to remain hostile, armed, and simultaneously attractive and difficult (attractive to merchants, difficult for all) created and perpetuated exactly the weakness...
Christians to be a political force
Finally, there were matters emperors were incapable of understanding, or understood but rarely. Chief among them were religion and economics. No one—unless we make...
Constantine was speaking the truth
Theognis looked deep into the eyes of the younger man, as if searching for a reason to believe Constantine was speaking the truth. Finally...
Prosperous and peaceful
“My first duty is to you, Dominus.”
“Not unless you’re a fool, which I don’t think you are. Every man’s first duty is to himself,...
Whole expanse of the Roman Empire
All of this was known, of course, to Galerius and Maximian through the spies they maintained in the territory of Constantius, as well as...
Run and flee to this human nature
Orthodox: We did not only ask where is the place that you say the human nature is, but also if it is counted and...
Just as the nature of the Trinity
Orthodox: May we never say or think concerning the eternal nature of the Trinity, equal in essence, that, because the economy was completed, it...
Natural hypostasis of the Word
Nestorian: Therefore the hypostasis which is uncreated and eternal is that of the human nature of Christ. But no one is able to hear...
