The Secret History

Procopius
The Secret History

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First published in 1990.

Introduced by Philip Ziegler.

Translated by G. A. Williamson.

Bound in cloth.

176 pages; 12 colour plates. 9½" x 6¼".

As the Emperor Justinian’s official historian in the 6th century, Procopius had a good line in bland flattery. In secret, however, he wrote with venom. His subversive work paints Justinian as a tyrant, the Empress Theodora as a power-mad nymphomaniac, and the great General Belisarius as corrupt. ‘Loyal Procopius’, it seems, was not so loyal. Already reprinted several times, The Secret History remains one of our most popular titles ever.

‘This remains one of the most spirited and consistently entertaining polemics’
PHILIP ZIEGLER
 
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