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Procopius

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Caesarea, Palaestina Prima

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Procopius of Caesarea was born in the latter years of the fifth century at Caesarea in Palestine. He originated from the land-owning provincial upper class and, like Zosimus, became a civil servant. As early as A.D. 527, before the emperor Justin's death, Procopius became counsellor, assessor, and secretary to Belisarius, whose fortunes and campaigns he followed for the next twelve or fifteen years. Small wonder he became very knowledgeable of military affairs through this service. He has long been respected as a historian of the emperor Justinian’s wars, and is reckoned the greatest of the later Greek historians. Procopius was finally raised to the dignity of an illustrius, and died not earlier than A.D. 562. ...more

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	The Secret History 3.83 avg rating — 3,427 ratings — published 550 — 79 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	History of the Wars, Volume I: Books 1-2 by Procopius, Henry Bronson Dewing (Translator) 4.08 avg rating — 228 ratings — published 550 — 53 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	History of the Wars, Books III and IV: 4.22 avg rating — 92 ratings — published 550 — 38 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Wars of Justinian by Procopius, Henry Bronson Dewing (Translator), Anthony Kaldellis (Translator/Introduction/Editor) 4.28 avg rating — 75 ratings — published 550 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	History of the Wars, Volume III: Books 5-6.15 4.25 avg rating — 71 ratings — published 551 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	History of the Wars, Volume 5. Books 7.36-8. Gothic War by Procopius, Henry Bronson Dewing (Translator) 4.24 avg rating — 62 ratings — published 550 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Secret History/The Wars of Justinian 3.92 avg rating — 64 ratings — published 550	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	History of the Wars, Volume IV. Books 6.16-7.35 Gothic War by Procopius, Henry Bronson Dewing (Translator) 4.14 avg rating — 57 ratings — published 550 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	On Buildings 3.70 avg rating — 56 ratings — published 1940 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Complete Procopius Anthology: The Wars of Justinian, the Secret History of the Court of Justinian, and the Buildings of Justinian by Procopius, Bybliotech (Editor) 4.04 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2013 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“For the miserable find comfort in the philosophy that not on them alone has evil fallen.”
― Procopius, The Secret History

tags: history, history-of-mankind, misery, misery-loves-company, procopius, the-secret-history

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“...while cleverness is appropriate to rhetoric, and inventiveness to poetry, truth alone is appropriate to history.”
― Procopius of Caesarea

tags: byzantium, history, justinian, roman-history, rome

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“As things went from bad to worse all men came to learn by experience that man's innate wickedness knows no limit: when it feeds on the knowledge of the past, and when the licence which impunity bestows encourages it to victimise all whom it encounters, it seems to swell inevitably to such proportions that it is not even possible for the minds of the sufferers to grasp its immensity.”
― Procopius, The Secret History

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