Episode 30: What links an actress, and empress and a goose?

The only thing you need for this episode is some Propertius.

Here's his incredibly sycophantic litany of Justinian and Theodora's buildings:

http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Procopius/Buildings/home.html

and here's the good shit: The Secret History:

http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Procopius/Anecdota/home.html