Paperback. Blue and cream cover with title on the front board.

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The author tells the story of the 6th century emperor who attempted to revive the Roman Empire in Byzantium after the fall of Rome to the Goths and Vandals.

Percy Neville Ure M.A. was the University of Reading’s first Professor of Classics (1911–1946) and the founder of the Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology at Reading.