Abstract
JUSTINIAN'S work as a builder is, happily, known to us in greater detail than the building activity of any other ancient ruler. His greatest achievement, St. Sophia, still stands; his second greatest church, the Holy Apostles, is well known from literary sources; and many other important monuments are preserved. In the De aedificiis of Procopius we possess the most detailed single record to come down to us of any ancient monarch's buildings; and from other literary and epigraphic sources we are able to gather much valuable information. A complete survey and study of all this material would exceed the limits appropriate to the present occasion. It will be useful, however, to discuss certain points of interest which either seem to have escaped the attention of scholars in general, or have remained somewhat inaccessible.
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