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The Secret History

Author: Procopius

Genre: Non Fiction

Duration: 2 Hours 29 Minutes

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"The Secret History" by Procopius is a captivating historical novel that unveils the hi ...

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How The Great General Belisarius Was Hoodwinked By His Wife, Whose Lover Became A Monk

How Belated Jealousy Affected Belisarius’s Military Judgment, To The Joy Of The Enemy

Showing The Danger Of Interfering With A Woman’s Intrigues, Especially When The Woman Is The Friend Of An Empress

How Theodora, Revenging Her Dear Antonina, Humiliated The Conqueror Of Africa And Italy

How Theodora Tricked The General’s Daughter Into A Liaison With The Empress’s Nephew, And Belisarius Became A Public Laughing Stock

Ignorance Of The Emperor Justin, And His Stencilled Signature, And How His Nephew Justinian Was The Virtual Ruler

Outrages Of The Blues

Character and Appearance Of Justinian

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

How The Defender Of The Faith Ruined His Subjects

Proving That Justinian And Theodora Were Actually Fiends In Human Form

Deceptive Affability And Piety Of A Tyrant

Justice For Sale

How An Roman Citizens Became Slaves, And A Complaining Patrician Was Ribaldly Mocked By Theodora’s Eunuchs

What Happened To Those Who Fell Out of Favor With Theodora

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

How Justinian Killed A Trillion People

How He Seized All The Wealth Of The Romans And Threw It Away In The Sea And On The Barbarians

Debasing Of The Quaestorship

The Sky Tax, The Selling Of All Offices, And How Border Armies Were Forbidden To Punish Invading Barbarians

Further Corruption In High Places

How Landowners Were Ruined

Unjust Treatment Of The Soldiers, And How Justinian Tricked The “Students” Out Of Their Pay By Threatening To Send Them To War

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

How He Spoiled the Beauty Of The Cities And Plundered The Poor

How The Defender Of The Faith Protected The Interests Of The Christians

His Violation Of The Laws Of The Romans, And How Jews Were Fined For Eating Lamb

Other Incidents Revealing Him As A Liar And A Hypocrite

Further Innovations Of Justinian And Theodora, And A Conclusion Which Imagines The Death Of An Emperor

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The Secret History

Description

Episodes

How The Great General Belisarius Was Hoodwinked By His Wife, Whose Lover Became A Monk

How Belated Jealousy Affected Belisarius’s Military Judgment, To The Joy Of The Enemy

Showing The Danger Of Interfering With A Woman’s Intrigues, Especially When The Woman Is The Friend Of An Empress

How Theodora, Revenging Her Dear Antonina, Humiliated The Conqueror Of Africa And Italy

How Theodora Tricked The General’s Daughter Into A Liaison With The Empress’s Nephew, And Belisarius Became A Public Laughing Stock

Ignorance Of The Emperor Justin, And His Stencilled Signature, And How His Nephew Justinian Was The Virtual Ruler

Outrages Of The Blues

Character and Appearance Of Justinian

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

How The Defender Of The Faith Ruined His Subjects

Proving That Justinian And Theodora Were Actually Fiends In Human Form

Deceptive Affability And Piety Of A Tyrant

Justice For Sale

How An Roman Citizens Became Slaves, And A Complaining Patrician Was Ribaldly Mocked By Theodora’s Eunuchs

What Happened To Those Who Fell Out of Favor With Theodora

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

How Justinian Killed A Trillion People

How He Seized All The Wealth Of The Romans And Threw It Away In The Sea And On The Barbarians

Debasing Of The Quaestorship

The Sky Tax, The Selling Of All Offices, And How Border Armies Were Forbidden To Punish Invading Barbarians

Further Corruption In High Places

How Landowners Were Ruined

Unjust Treatment Of The Soldiers, And How Justinian Tricked The “Students” Out Of Their Pay By Threatening To Send Them To War

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

How He Spoiled the Beauty Of The Cities And Plundered The Poor

How The Defender Of The Faith Protected The Interests Of The Christians

His Violation Of The Laws Of The Romans, And How Jews Were Fined For Eating Lamb

Other Incidents Revealing Him As A Liar And A Hypocrite

Further Innovations Of Justinian And Theodora, And A Conclusion Which Imagines The Death Of An Emperor

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