The Secret History - Softcover

Procopius

 
9780140441826: The Secret History
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0140441824 ISBN 13: 9780140441826
Verlag: Penguin Classics, 1981

Inhaltsangabe

A trusted member of the Byzantine establishment, Procopius was the Empire's official chronicler, and his History of the Wars of Justinian proclaimed the strength and wisdom of the Emperor's reign. Yet all the while the dutiful scribe was working on a very different - and dangerous - history to be published only once its author was safely in his grave. The Secret History portrays the 'great lawgiver' Justinian as a rampant king of corruption and tyranny, the Empress Theodora as a sorceress and whore, and the brilliant general Belisarius as the pliable dupe of his scheming wife Antonina. Magnificently hyperbolic and highly opinionated, The Secret History is a work of explosive energy, depicting holy Byzantium as a hell of murder and misrule.

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Very little is known about Procopius. He was born in Palestine around AD 500 and fought for the Byzantine Empire in Persia, Africa and Italy.
G.A. Williamson has translated Eusebius and Josephus for the Penguin Classics.

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Verlag
Penguin Classics
Erscheinungsdatum
1981
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0140441824
ISBN 13 
9780140441826
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
208
Herausgeber
Sarris Peter
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