When I heard that this was the "Byzantine Dante" I was disappointed just to see how short the actual text ended up being. Much like The Caesars of the emperor Julian, this is a revolving door of medieval Roman notables set against a basic plot of the narrator's lawsuit against the psychopomps for carrying off his soul off to Hades too soon. The impiety of the story is its most appealing feature. Also much like Julian, the narrator speaks of meeting the "Galileans" among the many souls of pagans in the afterlife, who are still judged by two ancient Greeks plus a notorious Iconoclastic emperor with no God or Jesus to be seen.