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Describing Constantinople

Building the City

3. Justinian

·Justinian

• J. A. S. Evans, The Age of Justinian. The Circumstances of Imperial Power (London-New York, Routledge, 1996)
• id. The empress Theodora partner of Justinian (Austin University of Texas Press 2002).
• Geoffrey Greatrex, 'The Nika revolt: a reappraisal', JHS 117 (1997), 60-86
• id., Rome and Persia at war, 502-532 (Leeds: Francis Cairns, 1998)
• J. A. Evans , The Emperor Justinian and the Byzantine Empire (London, 2005)
• Michael Maas ed., The Cambridge companion to the Age of Justinian (Cambridge, 2005).

Historians

  E. and M.Jeffreys, R. Scott et al. The Chronicle of John Malalas , English translation (Melbourne, 1986).

·  E. Jeffreys, Studies in John Malalas (Sydney, 1990)

·  Procopius, Buildings (in Loeb and online); Book I on Constantinople; excerpt at Fordham

• Averil Cameron, Procopius and the sixth century (London 1985)
• A. Kaldellis, Procopius of Caesarea: Tyranny, History and Philosophy at the end of antiquity (University of Pensylvania, 2004)

Church of St. Polyeuktos – see Artserve

·  Martin Harrison, A Temple for Byzantium (London 1989)

·  Excavations at Sarachane in Istanbul : The Excavations, Structures, Architectural Decoration, Small Finds, Coins, Bones, and Molluscs Vol 1 (Washington, 1986)

·  J.W. Hayes, Excavations at Sarachane in Istanbul : The Potter y Vol 2 (1992)

Hagia Sophia

Mark, R. and Cakmak, A., eds., The Hagia Sophia. From the Age of Justinian to the Present (CUP, 1993)

For more pictures see 1, 2

·  Paul the Silentiary, Description of St. Sophia, ed. P. Friedländer, Johannes von Gaza und Paulos Silentiarios (Leipzig, 1912) Excerpt at Fordham Description de Sainte-Sophie de Constantinople,French transl. Marie-Christine  Fayant and Pierre Chuvi (Paris, 1997).

·  English translation by Elizabeth Barrett Browning , excerpts

·  and in Mango, Art of the Byzantine Empire

·  R. Macrides and P. Magdalino, "The Architecture of Ekphrasis: Construction and Context of Paul the Silentiary's poem on Hagia Sophia," BMGS 12 (1988), 47-82.

·  Mary Whitby, "The Occasion of Paul the Silentiary's Ekphrasis of S. Sophia," CQ 35 (1985), 216-17

• G. Downey, Constantinople in the age of Justinian (New York, 1960)

Church of Sergius and Bacchus

Images at Artserve

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