[Gutenberg 20298] • Procopius / History of the Wars, Books V. and VI.
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- Authors
- Procopius
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Tags
- vandals , iran -- history -- to 640 , 483?-565 , emperor of the east , history , byzantine empire -- history -- justinian i , 527-565 , classics , goths -- italy , justinian i
- ISBN
- 9780140441826
- Date
- 0550-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.28 MB
- Lang
- en
Having dutifully written the official war history of Justinian's reign, Procopius turned round and revealed in *The Secret History* the other faces of the leading men and women of Byzantium in the sixth century. Justinian, the great law-giver, appears as a hateful tyrant, wedded to an ex-prostitute, Theodora; and Belisarius, the brilliant general whose secretary Procopius had been, is seen as the pliable dupe of his wife Antonina, a woman as corrupt and scheming as Theodora herself.