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Exploring Perge’s Residences:What kind of houses did the people of Perge, who crafted these beautiful structures and works of art, inhabit? Prof. Dr. Haluk Abbasoglu:In...

Charting the Path of Perge’s Development through History Q: How has Perge evolved over time? Prof. Dr. Haluk Abbasoglu:Perge has been a settlement since ancient times....

Insights from Prof. Dr. Haluk Abbasoglu Q: Commencement of Perge Excavations: Q: When and how did the excavations start in Perge? Prof. Dr. Haluk Abbasoglu:Perge excavations commenced...

But no sense of the historian’s high vocation and essential impartiality could damp the racy individualism of Psellus’s approach nor the delicate artistry of...

In his introduction to the Chronographia Psellus explains that he had often been pressed to write a history of his own times and that...

Constantine Ducas when he became Emperor in 1059 had not lost touch with the friend of forty years ago and he eventually showed his...

ChronographiaThe two predominating passions of Psellus’s life were to get on in the world and to promote scholarship and learning. This first characteristic is...

Whatever his father’s claims to aristocratic forebears, Michael Psellus grew up in the milieu of a middle-class family. His writings, and particularly his funeral...

When I first undertook the work, the late Dr. W. H. D. Rouse gave me sound advice, and as I neared the end, Professor...

For that reason has deprived from many citizens of their property without giving any notice of the existing chrysobulls (certificates of holdings without taxation)...