Article: Procopius of Caesarea: Tyranny, History, and Philosophy at the End of Antiquity.(Book review)

Procopius of Caesarea: Tyranny, History, and Philosophy at the End of Antiquity. By Anthony Kaldellis. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. Pp. 305. $49.95.)

The Roman emperor Justinian I (r. A.D. 527-565) dominated the sixth century, a period of transition from the classical to the medieval world across the Mediterranean. His contemporary, the historian Procopius of Caesarea, chronicled Justinian's reign in a History of eight books, the most important source for the age. He also wrote the notorius Secret History that excoriated the emperor and his court, and a more conventional panegyric, Buildings, that recorded Justinian's ambitious building ...

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