An excerpt from The Excerpta Constantiniana and the Byzantine Appropriation of the Past, by András Németh
The proem to the Excerpta survives via two independent channels. The text of both is identical and contains the name of the first collection (Inauguration of the Emperors). All those, both among the emperors of old and the persons of no public station, who did not allow their mind to be turned aside or weakened … Read more