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Fourteen Byzantine Rulers (The Chronographia)
Michael Psellus
- Form
- Form Non-fiction
- Year
- Year 1063
- Originally in
- Originally in Greek
- Pages
- Pages 400
An empress past seventy, born to the purple, has turned her private rooms into a perfumer's workshop, the furnaces going day and night while she bends over them, indifferent to the heat. Michael Psellus knew that room, as he knew nearly every room that mattered under the emperors he served.
His character stiffened, so to speak. Feebleness gave way to strength and the old slackness disappeared before a new fixity of purpose.
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