The Glittering Horn: Secret Memoirs of the Court of Justinian

In this fast-moving story of strife and intrigue we relive the follies and jealousies of the men and women at the nerve centre of sixth-century Constantinople, and participate in the tragic turns of fortune which frustrated its imperial dreams. .. Justinian, the plodding irresolute Emperor; Theodra, the circus-girl he made his queen; Belisarus the neurotic young general and the ordinary men and women of the day, are brought to life in Dixon's reconstruction of the past.