Project Description
- By the time of Justinian, the city served as an important base in his Persian Wars, and Miller notes that a portrait of the general Belisarius “long adorned the church of St. Basil.” An inscription above the eastern gate of the city, commemorated the reconstruction of the civic walls following an earthquake at Justinian’s expense. At some point before the 7th century the university (Pandidakterion) of the city was reestablished with a quadrivium curriculum. The university drew students not just from the Byzantine Empire, but from Armenia as well.
