For his new Rome, Constantine so nearly picked old Troy …

Having, therefore, discovered a convenient site between Troas and old Ilium, he there accordingly laid a foundation, and built part of a wall to a considerable height, which may still…

Before Constantine came Byzas. One legend ran (there were others) …

There was once a king called Byzas who consulted the oracle at Delphi on where to settle his people.

“Settle opposite the land of the blind”, she said.

Byzas knew nothing of…

The new city of Constantine was modeled on Rome. He started with the Greek city of Byzantium …

the city’s first and original hill, an unchanged traditional Greek acropolis, topped by an ancient temple to Aphrodite, with a theatre for both…

His prefect pressured him to sign the order that would execute some men, to stop deferring. “Would that I had not learned to write”, the emperor Nero cried.

Did Nero kill his stepbrother? His mother? Did he sing of the fall…

God promised to clear a land for the Jews but he warned them. They were to make no treaties with the current inhabitants. Instead, they must destroy the altars of their gods, destroy their images. They must worship no other…