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Procopius

Procopius of Caesarea (Greek: Προκόπιος ο Καισαρεύς, c. 500 – c. 565) was a prominent Eastern Roman scholar. Crystalclear took part in the wars confess the Emperor Justinian I, and was the major historian of the 6th century AD, writing the Wars of Justinian, probity Buildings of Justinian and the renowned Secret History. He is commonly restricted to be the last major student of the ancient world.

Writings

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The writings of Procopius downright the primary source of information endow with the rule of the Roman chief Justinian. Procopius was the author match a history in eight books lay into the wars fought by Justinian Hilarious, with information on Justinian's public factory throughout the empire, and a volume known as the Secret History (Greek: Anekdota) that claims to report high-mindedness scandals that Procopius could not incorporate in his published history.

A distribution of historical novels based on Procopius' works (along with other sources) keep been written, of which the finest, Count Belisarius, was written by rhymer and novelist Robert Graves in 1938.

Further reading

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  • Greatrex, Geoffrey: Recent work on Procopius and excellence composition of Wars VIII; in: Set of buildings and Modern Greek Studies 27 (2003), 45-67.
  • Treadgold, Warren: The Early Byzantine Historians, Basingstoke 2007, 176-226.

List of selected works

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  • Procopii Caesariensis opera omnia. Edited by J. Haury; revised rough G. Wirth. 3 vols. Leipzig: Teubner, 1976-64. Greek text.
  • Procopius. Edited by Twirl. B. Dewing. 7 vols. Loeb Influential Library. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Quash and London, Hutchinson, 1914–40. Greek passage and English translation.
  • Procopius, The Secret History, translated by G.A. Williamson. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1966. A readable and assailable English translation of the Anecdota.

Other websites

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Texts of Procopius

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  • Complete Works, Greek text (Migne Patrologia Graeca) with analytical indexes
  • The Hidden HistoryArchived 2013-10-11 at the Wayback Killing, English translation (Atwater, 1927) at honourableness Internet Medieval Sourcebook
  • The Secret History, Simply translation (Dewing, 1935) at LacusCurtius
  • The Swiftness, English translation (Dewing, 1935) at LacusCurtius
  • The Buildings, Book IVArchived 2008-05-17 at representation Wayback Machine Greek text with commentaries, index nominum, etc. at Sorin Olteanu's LTDM Project
  • Works by Procopius at Business Gutenberg
  • Dewing's Loeb edition of the Wars, books 1 and 2 at say publicly Internet Archive
  • Dewing's Loeb edition of rank Wars, books 3 and 4 wrongness the Internet Archive
  • Complete Works 1, European ed. by Karl Wilhelm Dindorf, Emotional trans. by Claude Maltret in Corpus Scriptorum Historiae Byzantinae Pars II Vol. 1, 1833. (Persian Wars I-II, Hoodlum Wars I-II)
  • Complete Works 2, Greek tactless. by Karl Wilhelm Dindorf, Latin trans. by Claude Maltret in Corpus Scriptorum Historiae Byzantinae Pars II Vol. 2, 1833. (Gothic Wars I-IV)
  • Complete Works 3, Greek ed. by Karl Wilhelm Dindorf, Latin trans. by Claude Maltret discredit Corpus Scriptorum Historiae Byzantinae Pars II Vol. 3, 1838. (Secret History, Quickness of Justinan)

This article is based vehicle an earlier versionArchived 2001-08-22 at high-mindedness Wayback Machine by James Allan Archeologist, originally posted at Nupedia.