The Antiquities of Constantinople
As a humanist-archeologist, Gilles uses his ancient Greek and Latin sources with a keen detective's eye and a fine sense of critical judgment. "Wandering across the hills of the city with Gilles is a delight."  --Seventeenth-Century News, Fall 1988Gilles...explores a history so densely layered that one street corner could bear witness to the entire march of western civilization by turns Greek, Roman, Christian, and Moslem.  --Small Press, June 1988