ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts discussed in this book. The book discusses the texture and personality of Procopius' Greek text, which is so often allusive – also, with the ontology of its narrative forms, and how it operates on the mind of its readers. It considers Procopius' discussion of the North African confessors who could speak even after their tongues had been cut out by the Vandals. The book also considers the famous speech of Theodora during the Nika riots, surely Procopius' concoction in its reported form. The greatness of Procopius emerges from the combination of several virtues and choices. Procopius was the only historian of the Roman empire who not only covered the present reign in his narrative, down to the minute that he was writing, but also, in fact, devoted his work to that reign. Politics and war are central axes in Procopius' work.
