of course you can, lol, there is not much information out there about Byzantine Thebes, so I am going to expand a bit and cover the power of silk!!! (I am not mad, but as a political tool, being in control of a very desirable commodity, of tightly controlling the import and export of the silk only to specific countries and the high quality silk itself was only really worn by very high up rulers and whatnot)
actually...I think I am mad, lol