This ruler's Syrian treasurer Peter Barsymes speculated recklessly on grains and set up a silk monopoly. His general Mundus helped put down a rebellion led by Hypatius that began at the (*) Hippodrome. Tribonian revised this man's namesake legal code, and Procopius wrote a Secret History in which he attacked this ruler's empress as a tyrannical harlot. He sent Narses and Belisarius to put down the Nika Riots and constructed the Hagia Sophia. For 10 points, name this husb
This ruler's Syrian treasurer Peter Barsymes speculated recklessly on grains and set up a silk monopoly. His general Mundus helped put down a rebellion led by Hypatius that began at the (*) Hippodrome. Tribonian revised this man's namesake legal code, and Procopius wrote a Secret History in which he attacked this ruler's empress as a tyrannical harlot. He sent Narses and Belisarius to put down the Nika Riots and constructed the Hagia Sophia. For 10 points, name this husband of Theodora, a Byzantine emperor known as "the Great."
This ruler's Syrian treasurer Peter Barsymes speculated recklessly on grains and set up a silk monopoly.
{Justinian} I [or {Justinian} the Great; prompt on {Justinian}]