Quotes from Roderick Beaton

A dynastic alliance with Epiros would neutralise a potential threat to his rear while he was away campaigning in Asia.

Heraclius made a humiliating offer of peace. If it had been accepted, it would have turned the Roman state into a Persian vassal.

Heraclius made a humiliating offer of peace.

Every polis had its own constitution, and every constitution was different in points of detail.

The royal bodyguard, ordered by Philip to hang back for the occasion, followed at a discreet distance.

If it had been accepted, it would have turned the Roman state into a Persian vassal.

Philip had been murdered in broad daylight, in front of witnesses numbered in the thousands.

rule by one man, rule by the many, or rule by the few.

The army mustered by this new Macedonian Perseus, in 171 BCE, according to the Roman historian Livy

The standard Greek terms for these would soon become established as, respectively, tyrannis, demokratia, and oligarchia.

some supporting Macedonia, others, including Athens, supporting Rome.

respectively, tyrannis, demokratia, and oligarchia.

year later the former king would be paraded through the streets of Rome among captives

the last great dynasty of Byzantine emperors, the Palaiologoi, to rule from Constantinople.8

Thousands of those who had fought alongside the Macedonians were sold into slavery.

Among them was Polybius, who would spend the next twenty years of his life there

writing the greater part of his History and trying to make sense of it all.

Constantinople had been saved, and with it the Greek-speaking Roman Empire.

Urban formally announced what would become the First Crusade in the town of Clermont Ferrand

this victory, eleven hundred years later, was bringing them together as never before in their new identity as Christians.

The conceptual shift that made it possible was even simpler than the application of binary mathematics to electrical circuits.

Heraclius entered Persia from the north and the Sassanid Empire imploded.

Chosroes was murdered by his own side early in 628.

The basic technology of writing had been known for at least two thousand years already—nothing new about that.