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1927. The historian Procopius was not a Latin. He was born in Caesarea in Palestine about 500 AD, and apparently was one of those Samaritans whom he mentions in the "Secret History" as adopting Christianity for formal protection and not at all for spiritual reasons. In the following text, the chapter divisions are those of the manuscript. Here is a narrative with the fascination of the elder Dumas; but it is more than a collection of anecdotes of intrigue, it is a history, in which the purple past of Rome lives again in spirited pictures, thrown, if you care for a further metaphor, upon the screen of the present.
1927. The historian Procopius was not a Latin. He was born in Caesarea in Palestine about 500 AD, and apparently was one of those Samaritans whom he mentions in the "Secret History" as adopting Christianity for formal protection and not at all for spiritual reasons. In the following text, the chapter divisions are those of the manuscript. Here is a narrative with the fascination of the elder Dumas; but it is more than a collection of anecdotes of intrigue, it is a history, in which the purple past of Rome lives again in spirited pictures, thrown, if you care for a further metaphor, upon the screen of the present.
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THE father of Belisarius's wife, a lady whom I have mentioned in my former books, was (and so was her grandfather) a charioteer, exhibiting that trade in Constantinople and Thessalonica. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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THE father of Belisarius's wife, a lady whom I have mentioned in my former books, was (and so was her grandfather) a charioteer, exhibiting that trade in Constantinople and Thessalonica. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Roman Empire, Master of Offices, King of the Devils New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Surprise Me!
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- The Secret History (Penguin Classics) by Procopius on 8 pages
- The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. 3 by Edward Gibbon in Front Matter
- The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: Volumes 1-3 (Everyman's Library) by Edward Gibbon in Front Matter
- Decline And Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon in Front Matter
- Encounter with the Creator by Gayle Allen Goree in Back Matter
- Tall Tale America: A Legendary History of our Humorous Heroes by Walter Blair in Back Matter
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