05-19-2007, 03:00 PM
Quote:Oh, it's just the clothes I liked. Botaniates was a pretty useless Emperor.
Alexios I is one of my heroes - turned the tide of decline in the Empire and issued in a new age of (albeit diminished) glory and success.
But I don't know about any Alanian wife. Didn't Alexios marry a Dukas?
Yes, but Alexios & Maria was rumored to be lovers.
Some of maria's cousin married the Komnenoi, to Isaac K. & others.
Suposedly Botaniates was an Alan himself, apart of other claims.
Remarks by Philip on the Athenian Leaders:
Philip said that the Athenians were like the bust of Hermes: all mouth and dick.