The secret history : with related texts / Prokopios ; edited and translated, with an introduction, by Anthony Kaldellis.

Author
Procopius [Browse]
Uniform title
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Indianapolis : Hackett Pub. Co., c2010.
Description
lxxix, 195 p. : maps ; 23 cm.

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        Subject(s)
        Bibliographic references
        Includes bibliographical references and index.
        Contents
        • A note on the translation and the spelling of names
        • Acknowledgments
        • Timeline
        • Glossary of offices and administrative terms
        • Genealogy of the family of Justinian
        • Genealogy of the family of Theodora
        • Map of the eastern Mediterranean in the reign of Justinian
        • Map of environs of Constantinople in the reign of Justinian
        • Map of Constantinople
        • A guide to the main sources
        • A guide to scholarship in English
        • The secret history
        • Related texts. A law for the marriage of Justinian and Theodora (Justin in Codex Iustinianus 5.4.23); The Nika riots (Wars 1.24); Theodora helps Monophysite saints (Yuhannan of Amida [John of Ephesos], Lives of the saints); The convent of repentance: a different view by Prokopios (Buildings 1.9.1-10); An attempt to curb corruption in the provinces (Justinian, Novella 8, preface); A contemporary philosopher's view of Justinian's tyranny (Simplikios, Commentary on Epiktetos 14.19-32); The downfall of Ioannes the Kappadokian (Wars 1.25 and 2.30.49-54); The Justinianic plague (Wars 2.22-23); Porphyrios the whale and other natural disasters (Wars 7.29.4-20); A plot to kill Justinian (Wars 7.31-32); Silkworms are smuggled into the Roman empire (Wars 8.17.1-8).
        ISBN
        • 9781603841801 (paper)
        • 1603841806 (paper)
        • 9781603841818 (cloth)
        • 1603841814 (cloth)
        LCCN
        2009032270
        OCLC
        429750187
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