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And the quote in the section about Theodora comes from Procopius's History of the Wars Book I as found on https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/History_of_the_Wars/Book_I
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The Byzantine Empire: A Short History
Non-FictionA paper I have been writing on and off for awhile, going over the history of Byzantium as concisely as I can.