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Original Title:	Anekdota
ISBN:	0140441824 (ISBN13: 9780140441826)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Byzantine Empire

The Secret History Paperback | Pages: 208 pages

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Having dutifully written the official war history of Justinian's reign, Procopius turned round and revealed in The Secret History the other faces of the leading men and women of Byzantium in the sixth century. Justinian, the great law-giver, appears as a hateful tyrant, wedded to an ex-prostitute, Theodora; and Belisarius, the brilliant general whose secretary Procopius had been, is seen as the pliable dupe of his wife Antonina, a woman as corrupt and scheming as Theodora herself.

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Title	:	The Secret History
Author	:	Procopius
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 208 pages
Published	:	March 25th 1982 by Penguin Classics (first published 550)
Categories	:	History. Classics. Nonfiction. Historical. Medieval. Literature. Ancient. Biography

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History and tabloid together! Definitely amusing, but requires at least some basic knowledge of the late antiquity to better contextualize what Procopius is talking about...

So I didn't realize until I was reading this that it wasn't just a coincidence and Donna Tartt actually named her book after this one, which is neat. Anyway, Procopius is really bitter and has some issues he really should have worked out on his own but this was fun and actually very amusing

My day to day involves routine investigations regarding incidents and accidents involving the significantly disabled. Most of the actual conversation is with caretakers. I go home often feeling drowned in bullshit, well maybe dunked with spittle-some baiting in between the submersions. I can handle tall tales, I could listen to Dylan spin a yarn about his upbringing amongst Chippewa carnies all night long. I just cant handle the shit, the demonizing. It shouldnt be surprising then that this book

"The Secret History" is an appalling rant against Justinian the Great (Emperor of Rome from 527 to 565). Unlike most of the histories of the classical era (Tacitus, Suetonius, Julius Cesar) this document has virtually nothing to offer the modern reader. The majority of contemporary historians that have survived from the time of the Roman empire were subtle thinkers who presented balanced, trustworthy views of their topics. The pleasure to the modern reader is to detect the bias of the writer and

Warning: this review is short. Because, YES, I can do short and almost-to-the-point when I really want to. It's just that I don't really want to very often.You gotta give it to the Byzantines, these guys and gals really knew how to live: debauchery, greed, cruelty, a total lack of morals, corruption, duplicity, wickedness, mass slaughter, mean-spiritedness, spite, shrewdness...They really had the seven deadly sins more than covered. If you believe Procopius, that is. Considering he used to be

I think it had the potential to be interesting insight into the reign of Justinian, but instead feels more like a rant by a man who clearly built up a lot of hatred towards Justinian and many others around him. I understand he was trying to show that Justinian wasn't all that great, but instead of providing a moderate and truthful account, this book goes too much in the other direction. However, it is nice to read something from the source's mouth, and it does give an interesting new dimension

This is an odd, odd little book. It's probably the strangest ancient work of history you will ever come across. In fact, if it weren't for the fact that Procopius is otherwise a respected author of sixth century Byzantine history, one would be inclined to dismiss this work as the work of someone who was more than a little biased, sex-crazed, and, well, insane.As it is, it contrasts strangely with Procopius' other works, which are neutral-to-favourable on the subject of Justinian and Theodora,