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| #118512 in Books | Hackett Publishing Co. | 2010-03-15 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.75 x5.50 x.50l,.73 | File type: PDF | 276 pages | ||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Prophecy sans fantasy|By Larry N. Stout|"The Secret History" by Prokopios, a candid and scathing look at the inner workings of the empire of Justinian, translated, edited, and annotated by brilliant historian Anthony Kaldellis, is a window on corruption, depravity, arrogance, greed, destruction, plunder, and impunity of empire-builders and their subtending subversive coteries o||
|By far the most accurate translation now available, with useful supporting documents for teaching, and a comprehensive and enlightening introduction that even experienced Byzantinists will want to read. --Michael Kulikowski, University of Tennessee
By exposing the perversion, repression, corruption, and injustice at the heart of Justinian's regime, Prokopios' The Secret History destroyed forever that emperor's reputation as the great and benevolent ruler of a vast Byzantine state.
Faithfully rendered here in blunt and idiomatic English, Prokopios' tell-all is as shocking today as it was in the sixth century. Kaldellis' substantial Introduction addresses, among other topics, the historical backg...
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