Author: PROCOPIUS
Title: The Secret History
Description: London, The Folio Society, 1990. Hardcover. Translation by G.A. Williamson. Introduction by Philip Ziegler. 8vo. Pictorial paper over boards, slipcase. xix, 151pp. Color illustrations. Near fine/very good. Slightest bit of quite mild slipcase wear; bookplate on front pastedown and circular blind-embossed ownership impression opposite. A superb first of this lovely edition of the 1966 Penguin edition. Byzantine scholar Procopius of Caesarea (500-565), often called the last great historian of the ancient era, had an axe to grind with Emperor Justinian and Empress Theodora and pulls no punches in this, his most famous and controversial work. .

Keywords: Ancient World


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