The Secret HistorybyProcopius of Caesareatranslated by Richard Atwater(Chicago: P. Covici, 1927 New York Covici Friede 1927)Reprinted, Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1961, with indication that copyright had expired on the text of the translation.
CONTENTS
- How the Great General Belisarius Was Hoodwinked by His Wife
- How Belated Jealousy Affected Belisarius's Military Judgment
- Showing the Danger of Interfering with a Woman's Intrigues
- How Theodora Humiliated the Conqueror of Africa and Italy
- How Theodora Tricked the General's Daughter
- Ignorance of the Emperor Justin, and How His Nephew Justinian Was the Virtual Ruler
- Outrages of the Blues
- Character and Appearance of Justinian
- How Theodora, Most Depraved of All Courtesans, Won His Love
- How Justinian Created a New Law Permitting Him to Marry a Courtesan
- How the Defender of the Faith Ruined His Subjects
- Proving That Justinian and Theodora Were Actually Fiends in Human Form
- Perceptive Affability and Piety of a Tyrant
- Justice for Sale
- How All Roman Citizens Became Slaves
- What Happened to Those Who Fell Out of Favor with Theodora
- How She Saved Five Hundred Harlots from a Life of Sin
- How Justinian Killed a Trillion People
- How He Seized All the Wealth of the Romans and Threw It Away
- Debasing of the Quaestorship
- The Sky Tax, and How Border Armies Were Forbidden to Punish Invading Barbarians
- Further Corruption in High Places
- How Landowners Were Ruined
- Unjust Treatment of the Soldiers
- How He Robbed His Own Officials
- 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
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