https://www.academia.edu/25169728/Were_The_Sasanians_Barbarians_Roman_Writers_on_the_Empire_of_the_Persians_?auto=download&campaign=weekly_digest (https://www.academia.edu/25169728/Were_The_Sasanians_Barbarians_Roman_Writers_on_the_Empire_of_the_Persians_?auto=download&campaign=weekly_digest)
Thought people might find this interesting.
Interesting piece, but it still takes us no further forward, as his critique of Agathias is based upon the assumption that Agathias was basing his anti-Persian prejudice on better evidence than his pro-Persian contemporaries, and they were only superficially pro-Persian as they were actually just anti-Justinian.