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)

"The Complete Procopius Anthology" contains the complete works of Procopius of Caesarea, including "The Buildings of Justinian" in digital ebook format for the first time, as well as "The Wars of Justinian", and "The Secret History of the Courts of Justinian".

Procopius of Caesarea was a prominent Byzantine scholar from the region of Palaestina Prima, and is widely considered to be the last major historian of the Ancient World. He accompanied the Byzantine general Belisarius in the wars of the Emperor Justinian I, enabling him to write "The Wars of Justinian" from a first-hand perspective.

The celebrated "Secret History of the Court of Justinian" was discovered in the library of the Vatican in 1623, and published to tremendous interest. It reveals Procopius as a man deeply disillusioned with the Emperor Justinian and his wife the Empress Theodora. Procopius delivers a comprehensive character assassination of Justinian as a cruel, vulgar, venal and incompetent leader, and Theodora as a lustful and mean-spirited woman.

This unexpurgated anthology has been compiled by www.Bybliotech.org and optimised for e-readers. It includes an active table of contents for ease of navigation, and features unique illustrations as frontispieces for the individual books in the anthology.

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Genres: History, Ancient History, Ancient, Classics

503 pages, Kindle Edition

First published February 1, 2013

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.

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