Procopius: The Secret History. 2009

by Procopius, G.A. Williamson (Translator)

2009. No Edition Stated. 151 pages. No dust jacket, Folio edition with slipcase. Patterned boards with green lettering. Colour illustrations throughout. Clean pages with firm binding. Mild wear to spine, board edges and corners. Notable sunning to spine. Slipcase is good, with minor wear and soiling to boards.

Hardcover

Published January 1, 2009

About the author

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.