The Age of Justinian and Theodora: A History of the Sixth Century A.D., Volume 1 (of 2)

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Acoemeti, sleepless monks, 282.
Acrobats, 101.
Actresses, at Constantinople, 107;
marriage with, forbidden to senators, etc., 107, 346.
Adule, port of Axume or Abyssinia, 186, 187.
Adultery, punishment of, at Rome, 336.
Agathias, on military decline, 167;
epigram by, 341.
Agentes-in-rebus, Imperial messengers, 143.
Agrippina, mother of Nero, her arrogance, 326.
Agrippina, wife of Germanicus, her courage, etc., 329.
Aimoin on marriages of Justinian and Belisarius, 348.
Alamundar, Arab sheik, his enormities, 312.
Alemannus, his notes on secret history of Procopius, 320.
Allegories of Neoplatonists, 264.
Amantius, chief eunuch, his plots and execution by Justin, 302, 305.
Amida, siege of, 177.
Ammianus, on Papal luxury, 275.
Ambrose, St., opposes Theodosius I, 55.
Anastasia, sister of Theodora, 338, 345.
Anastasius, Emperor, his coronation, 104;
wars, 175;
character, 298.
Anemodulion or Wind-slave, 76.
Animals, draught, humane treatment of, 142.
Anthology, Greek, obscenity of, 341.
Antioch, earthquake at, 317.
Antipodes, Church against, 182, 214.
Antonina, wife of Belisarius, her origin, etc., 348.
Apostles, Twelve, Church of, 79;
credibility of statements as to, 254;
authenticity of epistles by, ib.
Apollonius Tyaneus, at Constantinople, 66, 73;
character of, 245, 274.
Apparitors, officers of provincial judges, 149.
Arches, triumphal, at Constantinople, 33, 69, 72, 73, 77, 78.
Arians, at Nice, 276;
Gothic, 79, 279.
Aristippus, his Cyrenean philosophy, 239.
Aristotle, his scientific work, 239;
on slavery, 115;
on women, 322;
on abortion, 343.
Army, Byzantine, 165, sqq.
Artemisia I and II, queens of Caria, 322.
Art-schools, 224.
Aspirate, abuse of, at Rome, 126.
Athenais or Eudocia, Empress, 108, 230.
Atomic theory of Epicurus, etc., 284.
Augustine, St., his early life, 207;
on prostitution, 331.
Aurelius, Marcus, his ethics, 241;
persecutes Christians, 251.
Bakeries, public, 82;
at Rome, kidnapping for, 337.
Banduri, anon. Patria of, 23.
Baptism, early form of, 112.
Basil the Great, founder of monasteries, etc., 209, 282.
Baths, public, 57;
mixing of sexes in, 116, 340.
Beazley, on early trade, 185.
Beylié on Byzantine houses, 24.
Belisarius, first appearance as a general, 316;
marriage of, 348.
Bema or chancel in Greek church, 55.
Berenice, queen, her crime, 324;
her fate, 325.
Berytus, seat of law-school, 218.
Bigg on Platonists at Alexandria, 262.
Blachernae, region and palace of, at Constantinople, 26, 81.
Blemmyes or Nubians, emerald mines worked by, 189.
Blues and Greens, factions of Circus, 22, 98, 298.
Books at Constantinople, public, 58, 208;
private, 118.
Bosphorus, Thracian, 7, 9, 12.
Bryce on life of Justinian by Theophilus or Bogomil, 320.
Buckler, elevation of emperor on, 105.
Bury on Byzantine economics, 198, 201.
Byzantium, foundation of, 3;
vocal walls of, 7;
character of inhabitants of, 84.
Byzantinische Zeitschrift, 361.
Byzas, founder of Byzantium, 3, 48.
Caecina, his motion against wives of provincial governors, 329.
Caenis, concubine of Vespasian, 336, 346.
Candidates, Imperial guards, 50, 167.
Cassius, Dion, on old Byzantium, 6;
on Vespasian’s parsimony, 336.
Cavades or Kavádh, king of Persia, 176, 313.
Cethegus and Precia, 335.
Ceylon, ancient trade at, 186.
Chain of Golden Horn, 40.
Chalcedon, foundation of, 3;
council of, 277, sqq.
Chalke, palace at Constantinople, 49.
Charity, public, at Constantinople, 81.
China and silk trade, 193.
Chosroes or Nushirvan, prince of Persia, 314.
Chrysargyron, tax on petty trade, 154;
abolition of, 155, 201.
Chrysoceras or Golden Horn, 4, 12, 38.
Chrysopolis or Scutari, 80 (map).
Chrysostom on luxury of Byzantines, 87, 113, sqq.;
on immorality of, 112, 121.
Churches, Greek, 55;
conduct in, 112.
Circus or Hippodrome, 60, 97, sqq.
Cisterns at Constantinople, 173, sqq.
Cleopatra, sister queens so named, their crimes, 324.
Clergy, trade duty free to, 155, 293.
Codicils or Imperial commissions, 93.
Codinus on antiquities of Constantinople, 23, etc.
Coinage of Byzantium and Constantinople, 122.
Colchis or Lazica, relations of Empire with, 312, 316.
Columns at Constantinople, 48, 69, 72, 78, 80.
Coma Berenices, 325.
Comito, sister of Theodora, 338, 345.
Consistorium, Imperial council, 144.
Constantine the Great founds Constantinople, 10, 13, 85;
establishes Christianity, 15, 270.
Consul, installation of, 109.
Cornelia, wife of Pompey, her learning, etc., 326.
Cosmas Indicopleustes, his travels, etc., 182, 187, etc.
Cost of commodities, etc., 123;
of slaves, 115.
Costume at Constantinople, 85, sqq.
Councils, Oecumenical, 276, sqq.
Creeds, Christian, elaboration of, 275.
Crescent, chosen emblem of Byzantines, 6.
Cresollius on sophists and voice culture, 208, 214.
Crowns, Byzantine, 91.
Crusades, effects of, 293.
Cyclobion, a fort at Constantinople, 25.
Cynane, daughter of Philip of Macedon, her warlike exploits, 322.
Cynic philosophers, 238, 241.
Daphne, palace at Constantinople, 51.
Dardania, site of Taor and Bader, 299.
Débidour, his defence of Theodora, 342.
Decurions in local government, 148;
captains of silentiaries, 52.
Demes, factions of Circus, 22, 98, 298.
Diehl, his work on Justinian, v, 345.
Dion Cassius. See Cassius.
Diptychs, consular, 110, 227.
Dome or cupola, introduction of, 25, 225.
Ducange on Christian Constantinople 24, etc.
Earthquakes in Eastern Empire, 13, 317.
Emperor, Byzantine, dress of, 89;
portraits of, 42.
Epicurus, his philosophy, 239, 284;
and Leontium, 332.
Eucharist, early method of administering, 112.
Eugenius, tower and gate of, 39, 40.
Eunuchs, origin of, 133;
in Byzantine Empire, ib.
Euphemia, Empress, her change of name, 301, 304;
opposes Justinian’s marriage, 347.
Euripus of Circus, 62, 64.
Eurydice, daughter of Cynane, her war against Olympias, 323.
Eusebius, his “Church History,” 290.
Evagrius on abolition of chrysargyron, 154;
on monks, 281.
Evans on Illyrian antiquities, 299, 300.
Evolution, nature and prospects of, 285, sqq.
Exokionion, region of Constantinople, 78, 79.
Exposure of infants, 242;
prohibited at Thebes, ib.
Filelfo of Ancona, his letters on later Byzantine manners, 116;
on preservation of classical Greek, 126.
Financial officials, bureaucrats, 152, 161;
surveyors and assessors, 150, sqq.;
collectors, 158, sqq.
Fish, plenty of, at Constantinople, 4, 84;
miraculous creation of, 253.
Foederati, foreign mercenaries, 169, 170.
Follis, coin and sum, uncertainty about, 100, sqq.
Forum, of Constantine, 69;
Imperial or Augusteum, 49;
Strategium, 70;
of Theodosius I or Taurus, 71, sqq.;
Amastrianum, 77;
of Arcadius, 77;
of Honorius, 80.
Fountains, sacred, at Constantinople, 26, 27, 38.
Galen, his works, 221.
Gallienus, his connection with Byzantium, 9, 48.
Galton on Inquisition, 293.
Gates of Constantinople, 31;
Caspian or Caucasian, Golden, 33.
Gieseler, Church History of, 249, 251, etc.
Gladiators, abolition of, 67, 241.
Godefroy (or Godfrey), Theodosian code by, 42, 160, et passim.
Golden Gate of Constantinople, 33.
Golden Horn or Chrysoceras, 4, 12, 38.
Gospels, credibility of, 253.
Governors of provinces, Rectors or judges, 148.
Greek churches, decoration of, 55, 227.
Greek learning, introduction of, at Rome, 205, sqq.
Greens and Blues, factions of Circus, 22, 98, 298.
Gregory of Nazianzus on military dragons, 168;
on furore at Circus, 108;
on theatre, 339.
Gregory of Nyssa on female education, 229;
on popular theology, 280.
Grosvenor on antiquities of Constantinople, 4, 24, 41, 48, etc.
Guards, Imperial, 50, 167;
private, 171.
Gyllius on antiquities of Constantinople, 4, 5, 24, 33, etc.
Halicarnassus, mausoleum at, 322.
Harbours of Byzantium, 7;
of Constantinople, ib.;
of Theodosius, or Eleutherium, 36;
of Julian, ib.;
of Bucoleon, 37;
of Neorion or Golden Horn, 39.
Hardouin, Cardinal, on forgery of ecclesiastical works, 256, 282.
Harpalus, his monuments to a hetaira, 335.
Hebdomon, a suburb seven miles from Milion, 319.
Hefner-Alteneck on costume, 91;
on family of Theodora, 342.
Hetairas or courtesans, their manners, etc., 115, 329, sqq.
Hierocles against Christians, 274.
Hills, seven, of Constantinople, 10, 11;
of Rome, ib.
Hippalus, a navigator, discovers the monsoons, 184.
Hippodrome or Circus, description of, 60, 97;
exhibitions in, 100;
records kept under, 67, 72.
Hodgkin on silentiaries, 52.
Hormisdas, palace of, 37;
occupied by Justinian, 309.
Huns, Attila and, 21;
Persia and, 176, 178;
Romans and, 313.
Hymn-singing in church, 111;
in open air, 97.
Hypatia, her murder, etc., 207, 230.
Iamblichus, his philosophy, 264.
Iberia or Georgia, relations of Empire with, 315.
Iconostasis, image-screen in Greek church, 55.
Infant exposure, 242.
Ink, Imperial purple, 93.
Inquisition, effects of, in Spain, 293.
Inscriptions on gates of Constantinople, 32, 34;
on codicils, 93;
solution of, 94.
Irenarchs or rural police, 144, 203.
Irene, church of, at Constantinople, 56.
Isambert, his work on Justinian, v, 308.
Isaurians, character of, 172;
war with, 175.
Isidore of Seville, his “Etymologies,” 212;
on eunuchs, 133;
on astronomy, 216.
Isocrates, his ethics, 241.
Jerome on female education, 230.
Jesus, life of, 245, sqq.;
its credibility, 253.
John of Antioch on military decline, 167;
on Justin, 301.
John of Ephesus on Theodora, 345.
John Lydus on Circus, 63, 99, 101, 102;
on Anastasius, 299.
Julian, Emperor, his character, etc., 271, 280.
Justin, Emperor, his birth and success, 300, sqq.;
his accession to the throne, 302.
Justinian, Emperor, birth, education, and adoption by Justin, 301, sqq.;
his consulship and diptychs, 308;
his marriage, 344, sqq.
Juvenal on unbelief at Rome, 244;
on Messalina, 342.
Kathisma, Imperial seat in Circus, 61, 97.
Khosr, Chosroes, or Nushirvan, prince of Persia, 314.
Kobad, Cavades, or Kavádh, king of Persia, 176, sqq., 313.
Kondakoff on Byzantine art, 225, 228.
Lais, a courtesan, her tomb, 334.
Lamia, a courtesan, a temple to, 335.
Latin language, use of in East, 125.
Law, intricacies of, etc., 219, sqq.
Law schools at Berytus, etc., 218, sqq.
Law students, grades of, 219;
ill conduct of, 207.
Lazica or Colchis, relations of Empire with, 312, 316.
Leaena, a courtesan, her monument, 334.
Leontium, a courtesan, and Epicurus, 332;
her writings, ib.
Lethaby and Swainson on St. Sophia, 55.
Libanius, sophist, method of training scholars, 211, 214;
on decurions, 197.
Libraries, public, at Constantinople, 58, 208.
Long wall of Anastasius, 124, 164.
Lucian on sham philosophers, 209;
on manners of hetairas, 115.
Ludewig, his work on Justinian, v;
on Theodora, 342.
Luitprand on gymnastics, 101;
on reclining at meals, 114.
Lupanars or brothels, 75.
Lupicina, later Empress Euphemia, 301, 304, 347.
Magnaura, Imperial reception hall, 56.
Man and beast fights in Circus, 101.
Manganon of Circus, 61;
an arsenal, 48.
Mani and Manichaeans, 267, sqq.;
laws against, 269.
Mansions for relays of post horses, etc., 141.
Marble tower at Constantinople, 35.
Marinus, a painter, illustrates life of Justin, 304.
Marinus, Praetorian Praefect, his extortions, 299.
Marrast on Byzantine gardens, etc., 53;
on popular theology, 280.
Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, 322.
Megara, a colony of Byzantium, 3, 84;
character of inhabitants of, ib.
Menken, A. I., actress, her career, etc., 340.
Messalina, Empress, wife of Claudius, her debauchery, 342.
Milion, official milestone at Constantinople, 59.
Moat at Constantinople, 27.
Monasteries, origin of, 280, sqq.
Money of Byzantium, 123;
of Constantinople, 122.
Monks, origin of, 280, sqq.;
acoemeti or sleepless, 78, 282.
Monophysites at Chalcedon, 278;
persecution of, 306.
Monsoons, discovery of, 184.
Montez, Lola, actress, her career, 333, 340.
Mordtmann on antiquities of Constantinople, 15, 24, et passim.
Mosheim, Church history of, 276.
Mythology, comparative, 235.
Narthex, vestibule of Greek church, 55, 111.
Neander, Church history of, 252, 282.
Neoplatonists, philosophy of, 261, sqq.
Nicopolis, a courtesan, leaves her fortune to Sulla, 335.
Nöldeke, history of Persians and Arabians by, 176.
Notitia, official guide to civil and military service of Empire, 23, 93, et passim.
Nude model, facilities for studying in Greece, 226.
Nushirvan or Chosroes, prince of Persia, 314.
Obelisk in Hippodrome, 63.
Olympias, mother of Alexander, her war, etc., 323.
Oman on art of war, 168, 174.
Pachomius, founder of monasteries, 282.
Paederasty, prevalence of, 120.
Palace, Imperial, of Constantinople, 49, sqq.
Panaetius, a Stoic philosopher, his ethics, 241.
Paspates on antiquities of Constantinople, 2, 24, 28, etc.
Pavement, the, at Constantinople, 69.
Pearl, Cora, a courtesan, her career, etc., 332, 334.
Pericles and Aspasia, 331.
Peripatetic philosophers, 238.
Phila, wife of Demetrius Poliorcetes, her character and temple, 324.
Photius, son of Antonina, 348.
Physicians, public, at Constantinople, 82, 88.
Placidia Galla, Empress, her sovereignty, 51, 327.
Plagiarism, habitual, of Byzantine writers, 228.
Plancina and Germanicus, 329.
Plato on education, 217;
on cosmogony, 258, sqq.
Pliny on early Christians, 249.
Plotinus, founder of Neoplatonism, 261, sqq.
Poll tax, 152.
Polybius on unbelief at Rome, 244.
Pompeius, nephew of Anastasius, 305.
Pompey the Great, his wife, 326;
his pillar at Constantinople, 48.
Popes, ostentation of, 275.
Population of Constantinople, 123.
Porch, Royal, at Constantinople, 58.
Porphyry, a Neoplatonist, his philosophy, 263.
Portia, wife of Brutus, wounds herself, 326.
Posts, public, of Empire, 141.
Praetorium, government house in provinces, 148.
Precia, a courtesan, rules Cethegus and Rome, 335.
Primitive races, extinction of, by civilization, 296.
Priscian on grammar, etc., 213;
a centenarian, ib.
Processions, Imperial, 95, 319.
Procopius first appears in history, 316;
his “Secret History,” 339.
Professors officially appointed, 205, sqq.;
salaries of, 210.
Prostitution, 329, sqq., 337.
Prostration before emperor, 52, 92, 133.
Public shows, expenses of, 100.
Purple, imperial, laws as to, 191.
Puteoli, hydraulic cement of, 41.
Pythagoras, philosopher, on numbers, 215;
on music, 216.
Pythionice, a courtesan, her monuments, 335.
Quintilian on education, 211.
Rabutaux on mediaeval prostitution, 337.
Rectors or provincial governors, 148;
extortions of, 198.
Reformation, the, 294.
Renaissance, the, 294.
Rhetoricians or sophists, their teaching, 211, 212, sqq.;
affectation of, 208.
Roads, Roman, 141.
Roi des Ribauds, intendant of palace courtesans, 337.
Rome, fall of, 20.
Salaries of professors, 210.
Salonina, wife of Caecina, her arrogant display, 328.
Sampson, hospital of, 56.
Scamander river, anecdote of, 330.
Schools of art, 224.
Semantron, call to church, 110.
Senate-houses, 56, 70.
Senate of Constantinople, 146;
Constantine and, 19;
Julian and, 146.
Serpent column in Hippodrome, origin of, 63;
destruction of, 64.
Seven hills at Constantinople, 10, 11;
at Rome, ib.
Seven towers at Constantinople, 34.
Severus, Emperor, at Byzantium, 8.
Ships, capacity of ancient, 161, 184.
Siedeliba or Ceylon, trade at, 186, 187.
Sigma or crescent at Constantinople, 33, 60.
Silk, mercantile routes from China for, 185, 193.
Silphium, a pot-herb, land of, 192.
Slave of Winds or Anemodulion, 76.
Soaemias, mother of Elagabalus, her character and conduct, 327.
Socrates, Church historian, 290, etc.
Socrates, philosopher, his ethics, 238, 240;
visits Theodote, 332.
Sophists or rhetoricians, their teaching, 212, sqq.;
affectation, 208.
Spiritualism, ancient and modern, 257, sqq., 263.
St. Sophia, old church of, 55.
Statues, public, multitude of, 61.
Steps, public rations served from, 80.
Stoics, their ethics, 238, 264, 286.
Streets at Constantinople, 42, 46.
Strzygowski, his researches on the Golden Gate, 34, 362;
on cisterns, 362.
Studius, monastery of, 78, 280.
Stylites or pillar-saints, 281.
Suburbs of Constantinople, 124.
Sycae, now Galata, 39, 80.
Tabari, translation of, by Nöldeke, 176;
by Zotenberg, ib.
Taurus, square of, 71.
Taxes, ways of levying, 149, sqq.
Theocritus aspires to purple, 302;
executed by Justin, 306.
Theodora, origin and career of, 337;
her reformation, 344;
marriage, etc., 347.
Theodoric the Goth, 178, 310.
Theodosius I, his laws against Pagans, 274, 277.
Theodote, a courtesan, Socrates visits, 332.
Theodotus, P. U., opposes Justinian, 309.
Thomas, a silentiary, plunders fugitives at Antioch, 318.
Throne, Byzantine, 50.
Titles of honour, 96.
Torture, taxes enforced by, 200.
Towers at Constantinople, 28, 29, 40.
Trade routes, 184, sqq.
Trajan, Emperor, and Christians, 250.
Treasury, Imperial, etc., 161.
Tzykanisterion or palace garden, 53.
University or Auditorium of Constantinople, 72, 207, sqq.
Urbicius, chief eunuch, nominates Anastasius for throne, 104.
Vandals in Spain and Africa, 131.
Van Millingen on Golden Gate, 34;
on Bucoleon harbour, 38.
Verina, Empress, wife of Leo I, provokes a revolution against Zeno, 328.
Vespasian and Caenis, 336, 346.
Vigilantia, mother of Justinian, 347;
sister of, 301.
Vigilantius against relic worship, etc., 292.
Vistilia, a noble lady, applies for licentia stupri, 336.
Vitalian, a general, his revolt, 180;
consulship and murder of, 306, sqq.
Wall, Long, of Anastasius, 124, 164.
Walls of Byzantium, vocal, 7;
of Constantinople, 27, sqq.
Water, public supply of, at Constantinople, 73, 74.
Women at Athens, 321;
at Sparta, ib.;
towns named in honour of, 323.
Wood for fuel, brought from Euxine, 40.
Xenophanes, the Eleatic, his philosophy, 238, 251.
Xerolophos, or dry-hill, at Constantinople, 11, 78.
Xylocercus Gate, 31.
Youth, dissoluteness of, 119;
education of, 204, sqq.;
legal, 219;
for art, 224.
Zachariah of Mytilene, translated by Hamilton and Brooks, 278, 312, etc.
Zeno, Eleatic philosopher, 238.
Zeno, Emperor, his Henoticon, 278;
death of, 103.
Zeno, Stoic philosopher, 238.
Zeugma, a quarter of Constantinople, 40.
Zeuxippus, baths of, at Constantinople, 57.
Zoroaster or Zarathushtra, 268.
Zotenberg, translation of Tabari by, 176.

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