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He Couldn’t Stop Himself: The Codex of Justinian

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Re: He Couldn’t Stop Himself: The Codex of Justinian

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Post by djur »

cafard wrote: post #2

Procopius piles on to the point that one reflexively doubts him.

Yes, all of the dirt about corruption or sexual license kind of gets overwhelmed by the claims about Justinian's head flying around independent of his body, or that he depopulated Africa, or that he was personally responsible for pretty much every earthquake and plague in the known world, etc. And of course there's the fact that he also wrote an incredibly glowing official history of Justinian. If he lied in one, it seems pretty easy to assume he lied in the other.

Re: He Couldn’t Stop Himself: The Codex of Justinian

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Post by man-and-laptop »

c22 wrote: post #6
man-and-laptop wrote: post #5

Is there any way to actually read this? Pay wall.

The 'web' link worked for me.

There is no web link. It's a pay wall. Did you not get that?

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I was able to read it using the Tor Browser. There's a quota on the number of articles before it activates the pay wall.

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