Literary echoes

Review of H. N. Turteltaub's novel Justinian. Reviewed by Steven H Silver. Turteltaub is really Turtledove, translator of Theophanes and author of the just terrible Worldwar: In the Balance. This is his first "straight" historical novel.

Britannica article on Jean-Francois Marmontel, author of Belisaire (1767)

Bibliography of fictional treatments of Justinian and Theodora, compled by Stefan Cramme.

Danny Yee's review of The Secret History, a novel by Dona Tartt (1993). The novel "tells the story of the classical Greek class at a liberal arts college on the east coast of the United States - six students and their teacher - through the reminiscences of one of those students." The name and some of the alusions come from Procopius.

Nutty

Another page claiming that " last traces of the original church died in the late sixth century." Apocalyptic and numerological noodling, the holy grail, "beasts and horns," etc. Check out the easy stuff page. which lays bar his attempt to marry ideas of Apostolic succession with Mormon theology.

Author believes Justinian really was the Devil, as Procopius famously asserts. Includes the cosmo-theological argument in favor of Procopius' authorship of the Secret History:

"Procopius's description of Justinian's character matches so well with the traits I've already attributed to the devil without knowing anything about what Procopius thought that it makes me certain that the Secret History is authentic."

Full Atwater text courtesy some nut-cake (www.hiddenmysteries.com).

"Goths, Franks, and Justinian's Empire 476-610," by Sanderson Beck, web polymath, author of large-scale historical essays, leftist, believer in Atlantis and Lemuria, guru and re-founder of the World University in Ojai. His Byzantine history pages are highly detailed, but I don't know if the content is any good.

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Gouden Hoorn / Golden Horn. Journal about Byzantium. (Hosted here, but edited independently)