Chrysos, Apollonios and Anthea are excerpted from a larger piece, RHOMAIOI, a series of loosely related dramatic monologues and poems focusing on the experiences of ordinary people in Late Antiquity (roughly from the 2nd through the 6th century C.E.). It is a fascinating and tumultuous epoch of human experience - - a period which has bequeathed to the modern world much of our religious and political structure - - and yet for most people it is mysterious and misunderstood. It is in a very real sense mythological. "Rhomaioi" is Greek and means "Romans." It is the word the ordinary citizen of the "Roman" Empire would use to describe himself in the Greek-speaking East.