Authors: Anthony Kaldellis
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-01-21 - Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Justinian governed the Roman empire for more than thirty-eight years, and the events of his reign were recorded by Procopius of Caesarea, secretary of the general Belisarius. Yet, significantly, Procopius composed a history, a panegyric, as well as a satire of his own times. Anthony Kaldellis here offers a new