Mercurios Boas was the son of Theodoros Boas, an official at the court of the Despots of Mystras. He came from a great Byzantine military family from Angelokastro. His year of birth is not known. Mercury Boas is indeed a special case. You are rightly considered the leader of the famous Soldiers.
At a time when the exegesis of ancient texts, scholasticism and genealogy rubbed shoulders with assiduity, it was not foolish to imagine the Greek hero Bellerophon as an ancestor, or even Hector of Troy as a distant relative. Alongside the historical figure of Alexander the Great, who was a model fo
A large international team of scientists and historians from Europe and the US announced that they have found solid evidence for the origin of a hitherto unexplained extreme cold period in ancient Rome and neighboring areas, including Greece. The cause is considered to be the huge eruption of the Ok
Few figures have aroused more interest in the history of the medieval peninsular kingdoms than that of Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, the Cid Campeador. At this point it is difficult to separate the historical character from the legendary and this requires, first of all, to carry out an analysis of the hist