The Secret History (Penguin Classics) - Softcover

Procopius

 
9780140455281: The Secret History (Penguin Classics)
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ISBN 10: 0140455280 ISBN 13: 9780140455281
Verlag: Penguin Classics, 2007

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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 (1895-1982) also translated Josephus: The Jewish Wars (1959) and Eusebius: The History of the Church (1965) for Penguin Classics.

Peter Sarris is a University Lecturer in Early Medieval History and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.

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Verlag
Penguin Classics
Erscheinungsdatum
2007
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0140455280
ISBN 13 
9780140455281
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Anzahl der Seiten
140
Herausgeber
Sarris Peter
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