Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Classicism and Its Discontents Preface of the Wars -A Typology of Classicism -A Distorting Mirror? -Interdicting the Secret and the Buildings 2. Tales Not Unworthy of Trust: Anecdotes and the Persian War -Arcadius and Isdigerdes (1.2.1-10) -Anatolius and Vararanes (1.2.11-15) -Ephthalites, Persians, and Romans (1.3.1-1.4.13) Pearl of Perozes (1.4.14-31) Tyranny of Cavades (1.5-7) History of the Armenians (1.5.7-40) 3. The Secret of Philosophy Sequence of Regimes Ends in Tyranny -Tyranny and the Politics of Philosophy -Plato's Nightmare -Platonic Texts, Platonic Readers 4. The Representation of Tyranny -Chosroes and Justinian, Emperors of East and West -Vanity of Vanities: Despotism and Imperial Ceremony -The Rule of Women and the Plan of Secret 1-5 -Laws, Demons, and the Limits of Classicism in the Secret -Alternatives and Solutions 5. God and Tyche in the Wars Christianity? -Coping with Tyche Supremacy of Tyche in the Vandal War Struggle Between Virtue and Tyche in the Gothic War -Catastrophe in the Persian War -Tyche and God in Book 8 of the Wars -Precedents and Conclusions Notes Index
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