The Bearkeeper's DaughterA complex and historically rich novel of Imperial Byzantium, The Bearkeeper's Daughter features an empress whose beauty and power rivals Cleopatra's. |
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... stood the towering columned front of the hippodrome , and next to it , on the other side of the market- place , stood a massive building roofed with gilded bronze and gated with bronze , set deep into frowning walls : the Bronze Gate of ...
... stood the towering columned front of the hippodrome , and next to it , on the other side of the market- place , stood a massive building roofed with gilded bronze and gated with bronze , set deep into frowning walls : the Bronze Gate of ...
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... stood before him , holding a notebook in one hand and with the emperor's undertunic over the other arm . One of the first duties of any chamberlain was to help his master dress , and it was still a responsibility of the head of the ...
... stood before him , holding a notebook in one hand and with the emperor's undertunic over the other arm . One of the first duties of any chamberlain was to help his master dress , and it was still a responsibility of the head of the ...
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... stood up as he came out . Narses said a few flat words in Armenian , and they bowed and withdrew . The eunuch stood still for a moment , staring at the red embers of the fire , then sat own heavily on a log of fire- wood . John stood ...
... stood up as he came out . Narses said a few flat words in Armenian , and they bowed and withdrew . The eunuch stood still for a moment , staring at the red embers of the fire , then sat own heavily on a log of fire- wood . John stood ...
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Anastasios Antonina Arabic army Artabanes Artemidoros Augusta barbarians Belisarius Berytus Bostra bowed Bronze Gate Cappadocian cavalry chamberlain cloak command Constantinople couch count Count Belisarius cousin Datia daughter Diodoros Diomedes Elthemos emperor empress eunuch Euphemia Eusebios eyes face father files gallop gave Germanus girl grinned guards hand head Herulian Heruls hippodrome horse husband Illustriousness imperial Italy Jakobos John looked John the Cappadocian John thought John's Justinian Justinian Augustus killed knew Komito laughed letter Maleka mare marry master mistress Moesia mother Narses smiled never Nicopolis nodded palace Persian Philemuth Praejecta praetorian prefect prefecture Protectors pulled purple rode Roman Sacred Majesty Saracen Sardica Scholarians Sclaveni scribe Sergius shook shouted shrugged sighed silk Singidunum slaves someone sorry spear stared stood stopped tell Theodora thing Thrace told took trench troops trying waiting wife wish woman young