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Война с персами. Война с вандалами. Тайная история

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Первые четыре книги знаменитой эпопеи Прокопия «Войны», блистательно живописующие обманчиво победоносную борьбу Византии с Персией в VI в. и повествующие о походе знаменитого полководца Велисария в Северную Африку против королевства вандалов, а также дающие исключительно важные сведения по внутренней истории не только Византии, но и народов Ирана, Кавказа, Ближнего Востока, Северной Африки и средиземноморских островов. В книгу вошла и жемчужина византийской исторической литературы – «Тайная история», обнажающая скрытые пружины императорской политики и язвы коррупции константинопольского двора.

544 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 2013

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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.

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