The Roman emperor Arcadius Honorius and Arcadius After the death of Theodosius in 395 AD, the empire fell to his sons, the west to Honorius and the east to Arcadius. Arcadius left all the work [...]
Empress Theodora on a gold coin, with her son and daughter on the other side. With Theophilus dead, in 842 AD the Empire again had a woman in charge. The empress Theodora, [...]
Palaiologi: Manuel II Paleologus -Second to last Byzantine Emperor The last dynasty of Byzantine emperors The Palaiologi were the last dynasty on the throne of the Roman Empire, from 1204 [...]
Justinian was a Roman emperor in the 500s AD. He tried to reconquer the old Roman Empire all around the Mediterranean Sea, but he didn't quite manage it. Justinian's wife was Theodora.
Leo the Isaurian (ca. 720 AD, Louvre museum, Paris) Anastasius II When Justinian II's assassin Philippicus turned out to be a worthless party animal, other Roman officials killed him. In 713 [...]
Alexios I Comneni, the Byzantine emperor (1081 AD) The Battle of Manzikert The Battle of Manzikert in 1071 was the end of Basil's Armenian Dynasty. The Byzantines had lost Armenia to Alp Arslan [...]
Basil starts the Armenian Dynasty In 867 AD, Basil killed Bardas and took over as Roman Emperor. That started the Armenian Dynasty. People call it that because of Basil's Armenian ancestors. (Sometimes people call it the Macedonian [...]
Artemis, carved in ivory in Constantinople (now in the Cluny museum, Paris) The art of Rome continued in an unbroken tradition from the days of the Republic down to the fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman [...]
Hagia Sophia, Istanbul (500s AD) Rioters burned the old churches The Roman emperor Constantius II built a big church next to the imperial palace in Constantinople (now Istanbul) in the 300s AD. [...]
The Aegean Sea Where is the Aegean Sea? The Aegean Sea (eh-GEE-un) is a small ocean between Greece and Turkey, full of little islands. It is in the north-east corner [...]
