PREFACE. The following Drama was written with a view to Stage representation, and it is therefore rather as an Acting Play than as a Dramatic Poem that it should be judged by its readers. It follows as closely as possible the striking story recorded by Constantine Porphyrogenitus in his work, "De Administratione Imperii." Nor has the writer had occasion (except in the death of the heroine) to modify the powerful historical situations and incidents to which it is right to say his attention was first directed by his friend the well-known scholar and critic, Mr. W. Watkiss Lloyd. The date of the story is circa 970 a.d. a.d. DRAMATIS PERSONÆ. PEOPLE OF BOSPHORUS. The King of Bosphorus. King of Bosphorus Asander, Prince of Bosphorus. Asander Lysimachus, a statesman. Lysimachus Megacles, a chamberlain from the Imperial Court of Constantinople. Megacles Three Courtiers, accompanying Asander and accomplices in the plot. Soldiers, etc. PEOPLE OF CHERSON.
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