![]() ![]() ![]() It's just that I don't really want to very often. Because, YES, I can do short and almost-to-the-point when I really want to. You get to learn how the emperor was personally responsible for the deaths of one trillion people (Procopius provides a fully coherent argument where he arrives at this number), and much, much, more…Īll in all, this might be the most entertaining medieval book ever. ![]() This book is filled to the brim with tales of the evil deeds of Justinian and his vile courtiers. And they were all ”fiends in human form” and, of course, created by the devil. The great general Belisarius was a worthless idiot who was duped by everyone. ![]() His wife Theodora was a lying whore whose depravities knew no bounds. The emperor Justinian was a power-hungry bastard who ”spoiled the beauty of the cities and plundered the poor”. The Secret History is his story of how things really were in the dark heart of the Byzantine Empire, meant to be published only after his death. Once the official court historian of the emperor and an important member of the Byzantine Imperial court, Procopius wrote the History of the Wars of Justinian and worked on his great chronicles for decades. When some people fall out with their boss, they’ll write a post on Facebook about how much of a scumbag their boss is. ![]()
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