The Secret History of Procopius: Contents

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The Secret History of Procopius, tr. by Richard Atwater, [1927], at sacred-texts.com

	Introduction	1
	Foreword by the Historian	23
I.	How the great General Belisarius Was Hoodwinked by His Wife, Whose Lover Became a Monk	27
II.	How Belated Jealousy Affected Belisarius's Military Judgment, to the Joy of the Enemy	35
III.	Showing the Danger of Interfering with a Woman's Intrigues, Especially When the Woman Is the Friend of an Empress	45
IV.	How Theodora, Revenging Her Dear Antonina, Humiliated the Conqueror of Africa and Italy	53
V.	How Theodora Tricked the General's Daughter Into a Liaison with the Empress's Nephew, and Belisarius Became a Public Laughing Stock	63
	p. vi
VI.	Ignorance of the Emperor Justin, and His Stencilled Signature; and How His Nephew Justinian Was the Virtual Ruler	73
VII.	Outrages of the Blues	80
VIII.	Character and Appearance of Justinian	90
IX.	And How Theodora, Most Depraved of All Courtesans, Won His Love	98
X.	How Justinian Created a New Law Permitting Him to Marry a Courtesan On Her Promise to Repent Her Past; and the Truth About the Apparent Quarrels of a Happy Pair	109
XI.	How the Defender of the Faith Ruined His Subjects	117
XII.	Proving that Justinian and Theodora Were Actually Fiends in Human Form	127
	p. vii
XIII.	Deceptive Affability and Piety of a Tyrant	137
XIV.	Justice for Sale	145
XV.	How An Roman Citizens Became Slaves, and a Complaining Patrician Was Ribaldly Mocked by Theodora's Eunuchs	151
XVI.	What Happened to Those Who Fell Out of Favor with Theodora	159
XVII.	How She Saved Five Hundred Harlots from a Life of Sin, Made Away with Her Own Natural Son, and Other Curious Incidents of Her Passion for Match Making	167
XVIII.	How Justinian Killed a Trillion People	178
XIX.	How He Seized All the Wealth of the Romans and Threw It Away In the Sea and On the Barbarians	188
	p. viii
XX.	Debasing of the Quaestorship	193
XXI.	The Sky Tax, the Selling of All Offices, and How Border Armies Were Forbidden to Punish Invading Barbarians	200
XXII.	Further Corruption in High Places	207
XXIII.	How Land Owners Were Ruined	216
XXIV.	Unjust Treatment of the Soldiers, and How Justinian Tricked the "Students" Out of Their Pay by Threatening to Send Them to War	223
XXV.	How He Robbed His Own Officials, Merchants, Sailors, Workmen, and Everybody Else	231
XXVI.	How He Spoiled the Beauty of the Cities and Plundered the Poor	239
	p. ix
XXVII.	How the Defender of the Faith Protected the Interests of the Christians	250
XXVIII.	His Violation of the Laws of the Romans, and How Jews Were Fined for Eating Lamb	257
XXIX.	Other Incidents Revealing Him as a Liar and a Hypocrite	262
XXX.	Further Innovations of Justinian and Theodora, and a Conclusion Which Imagines the Death of an Emperor	270

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IX.

And How Theodora, Most Depraved of All Courtesans, Won His Love

How Justinian Created a New Law Permitting Him to Marry a Courtesan On Her Promise to Repent Her Past; and the Truth About the Apparent Quarrels of a Happy Pair

109

XI.

How the Defender of the Faith Ruined His Subjects

117

XII.

Proving that Justinian and Theodora Were Actually Fiends in Human Form

127

p. vii

XIII.

Deceptive Affability and Piety of a Tyrant

137

XIV.

Justice for Sale

145

XV.

How An Roman Citizens Became Slaves, and a Complaining Patrician Was Ribaldly Mocked by Theodora's Eunuchs

151

XVI.

What Happened to Those Who Fell Out of Favor with Theodora

159

XVII.

How She Saved Five Hundred Harlots from a Life of Sin, Made Away with Her Own Natural Son, and Other Curious Incidents of Her Passion for Match Making

167

XVIII.

How Justinian Killed a Trillion People

178

XIX.

How He Seized All the Wealth of the Romans and Threw It Away In the Sea and On the Barbarians

188

p. viii

XX.

Debasing of the Quaestorship

193

XXI.

The Sky Tax, the Selling of All Offices, and How Border Armies Were Forbidden to Punish Invading Barbarians

200

XXII.

Further Corruption in High Places

207

XXIII.

How Land Owners Were Ruined

216

XXIV.

Unjust Treatment of the Soldiers, and How Justinian Tricked the "Students" Out of Their Pay by Threatening to Send Them to War

223

XXV.

How He Robbed His Own Officials, Merchants, Sailors, Workmen, and Everybody Else

231

XXVI.

How He Spoiled the Beauty of the Cities and Plundered the Poor

239

p. ix

XXVII.

How the Defender of the Faith Protected the Interests of the Christians

250

XXVIII.

His Violation of the Laws of the Romans, and How Jews Were Fined for Eating Lamb

257

XXIX.

Other Incidents Revealing Him as a Liar and a Hypocrite

262

XXX.

Further Innovations of Justinian and Theodora, and a Conclusion Which Imagines the Death of an Emperor

270