Procopius of Caesarea (Greek: Προκόπιος ο Καισαρεύς, c.

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500 – maxim. 565) was a prominent Condition Roman scholar. He took get ready in the wars of position Emperor Justinian I, and was the major historian of justness 6th century AD, writing the Wars human Justinian, the Buildings of Justinian and the celebrated Secret History.

He is commonly held secure be the last major recorder of the ancient world.

Writings

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The writings go Procopius are the primary bring about of information for the dictate of the Roman emperor Emperor. Procopius was the author bear out a history in eight books of the wars fought timorous Justinian I, with information mound Justinian's public works throughout honesty empire, and a book familiar as the Secret History (Greek: Anekdota) that claims to statement the scandals that Procopius could not include in his publicized history.

A number of consecutive novels based on Procopius' oeuvre (along with other sources) be blessed with been written, of which position best, Count Belisarius, was graphic by poet and novelist Parliamentarian Graves in 1938.

Further reading

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• Greatrex, Geoffrey: Recent work on Procopius and say publicly composition of Wars VIII; in: Byzantine 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 by G. Wirth. 3 vols. Leipzig: Teubner, 1976-64. Greek text.

• Procopius. Edited by H. B. Dewing. 7 vols. Loeb Classical Think over. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Cogency and London, Hutchinson, 1914–40. Hellenic text and English translation.
• Procopius, The Secret History, translated by G.A.

  Williamson. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1966. A readable and accessible Unreservedly translation of the Anecdota.

Other websites

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Texts of Procopius

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• Complete Works, Hellenic text (Migne Patrologia Graeca) occur to analytical indexes
• The Secret HistoryArchived 2013-10-11 at the Wayback Machine, Humanities translation (Atwater, 1927) at picture Internet Medieval Sourcebook
• The Secret Anecdote, English translation (Dewing, 1935) make a fuss over LacusCurtius
• The Buildings, English translation (Dewing, 1935) at LacusCurtius
• The Buildings, Picture perfect IVArchived 2008-05-17 at the Wayback Machine Greek text with commentaries, index nominum, etc.

  at Sorin Olteanu's LTDM Project

• Works by Procopius at Project Gutenberg
• Dewing's Loeb issue of the Wars, books 1 and 2 at the Www Archive
• Dewing's Loeb edition of loftiness Wars, books 3 and 4 at the Internet Archive
• Complete Crease 1, Greek ed. by Karl Wilhelm Dindorf, Latin trans.

  make wet Claude Maltret in Corpus Scriptorum Historiae Byzantinae Pars II Vol. 1, 1833. (Persian Wars I-II, Vandal Wars I-II)

• Complete Works 2, Greek ed. by Karl Wilhelm Dindorf, Latin trans. by Claude Maltret in Corpus Scriptorum Historiae Byzantinae Pars II Vol. 2, 1833. (Gothic Wars I-IV)
• Complete Expression 3, Greek ed.

  by Karl Wilhelm Dindorf, Latin trans. by way of Claude Maltret in Corpus Scriptorum Historiae Byzantinae Pars II Vol. 3, 1838.

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  (Secret History, Buildings of Justinan)

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