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The 25 pages that link to Procopius, each with the reason it gives.

• Justinian IRelated: His accounts are central sources for both the emperor’s public image and private criticism.

• Late AntiquityRelated: His accounts offer a vivid, sometimes sharply critical, record of Justinian’s age.

• BelisariusRelated: His histories are the main narrative source for Belisarius’s military methods and career.

• NarsesRelated: His histories are a major source for Narses’s campaigns and reputation.

• TheodoraRelated: His accounts are the principal narratives of Theodora's life, though they conflict in tone.

• Byzantine historiographyRelated: His contrasting public and secret histories expose the risks of reading court-centered narratives literally.

• Vandal KingdomRelated: His narrative is a principal source for the Byzantine campaign and its aftermath.

• Nika riotsRelated: His narrative is the fullest surviving account of the revolt and its political setting.

• Theodosian WallsRelated: His account of Justinian’s repairs documents the walls’ early maintenance.

• VandalsRelated: His narrative is a major source for the kingdom’s fall to Byzantium.

• Alaric IRelated: His retrospective account helped transmit traditions about Alaric and the events surrounding Rome’s sack.

• Sack of Rome (455)Related: His account describes the recovery of treasures taken from Rome by the Vandals.

• Vandalic WarRelated: His narrative is the principal surviving account of the campaign’s origins and operations.

• Plague of JustinianRelated: His account is a key contemporary source for the outbreak in Constantinople.

• TotilaRelated: Procopius provides a major narrative account of Totila’s campaigns.

• Early SlavsRelated: His histories provide detailed early testimony about Sclaveni and Antes.

• GaisericRelated: His account preserves details about Gaiseric and the Vandal kingdom, written generations after the king’s death.

• Battle of DaraRelated: His account is the principal narrative source for the battle’s tactics and events.

• Battle of Mons LactariusRelated: His history of the Gothic War preserves evidence for the campaign surrounding Mons Lactarius.

• Battle of TaginaeRelated: His narrative is a principal source for Narses’s campaign and the battle.

• Lazic WarRelated: His histories provide a major narrative source for the war’s campaigns and diplomacy.

• Anthemius of TrallesRelated: His account of Hagia Sophia is a major source for the building’s construction and imperial presentation.

• Battle of Ad DecimumRelated: His narrative is the principal surviving account of the battle’s movements and turning points.

• Volcanic winter of 536Related: His account of the Sun’s diminished brightness is a prominent written witness to 536.