The Composition of Procopius, De Aedificiis

Procopius on Greece

“…Repeated soundings into the foundations of the fortifications at Isthmia, both along the Hexamilion and the Fortress wall, consistently yielded material that allows us confidently to date construction in the early years of the fifth century, An Tard, 8,2000 with a likelihood that this was carried out somewhere in the decade between 410 and 420. This evidence includes lamps, pottery, and coins, and it supports the general conclusion, based on examination of the architecture, that the entire fortification project was carried out at the same time.…”

“…Procopius' interest in linear fortifications -or perhaps Justinian's use of them -has long been observed 10 . Indeed, Procopius' treatment of Greece is An Tard, 8,2000 an ideal place to study this broader aspect of imperial policy, a strategy that might be described as defense in depth. First of all, the emperor took pains to fortify the Ister (4, 1, 4), a policy which, if effective, would have prevented virtually all barbarians from entering Greece by land.…”

“…Wars 8,25,19), and in 1942 Laurence W. Daly published an article discussing this site and holding up the surviving fortification as one of the few certain examples of Justinianic work 20 and a fine specimen of what he called "emplekton" technique, the construction style characterized by two faces of ashlar masonry surrounding a core of poured rubble and mortar. Thus, here -as elsewhere -there is a real danger of a circular argument: a fortification is mentioned by a literary source, and some remains are identified by a modern topographer ... and the two are commonly seen as one and the same thing.…”

“…An Tard, 8,2000 The rest of the references to Greece in the works of Procopius are of a totally incidental nature, concerned primarily with sea-borne transportation between Constantinople and Italy, that by necessity passes close to the Greek mainland. Thus, in Wars 5, 25, 13 the army sent to Italy got only as far as Greece where it spent the winter in Aetolia and Achanarnia.…”

Iusti̇ni̇anus’un Küçük Asya Yapi Poli̇ti̇kasi: Kaynaklar Üzeri̇nden Bi̇r Değerlendi̇rme

“…Kaesareia'lı Prokopios'un "Περὶ Κτισμάτων" Eseri Prokopios, imparator Iustinianus'un yapılarına atfen "Yapılar Üzerine" adlı eserini panegyrik (methiye) bir tarzla yarı edebi yarı inceleme olarak kaleme almıştır (Downey, 1947;Montinaro, 2015, 191-206). Eser, panegyrik bir çalışma olmasının yanı sıra imparatorluğun altıncı yüzyıl kilise mimarisi, sanatı ve topografyasını anlamak için önemli bir kaynaktır.…”