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Procopius


Born
Caesarea, Palaestina Prima
Genre
History

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Thucydides, Herodotus ...more


Procopius of Caesarea was born in the latter years of the fifth century at Caesarea in Palestine. He originated from the land-owning provincial upper class and, like Zosimus, became a civil servant. As early as A.D. 527, before the emperor Justin's death, Procopius became counsellor, assessor, and secretary to Belisarius, whose fortunes and campaigns he followed for the next twelve or fifteen years. Small wonder he became very knowledgeable of military affairs through this service. He has long been respected as a historian of the emperor Justinian’s wars, and is reckoned the greatest of the later Greek historians. Procopius was finally raised to the dignity of an illustrius, and died not earlier than A.D. 562. ...more

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Average rating: 3.89 · 4,037 ratings · 393 reviews · 203 distinct works • Similar authors
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“For the miserable find comfort in the philosophy that not on them alone has evil fallen.”
― Procopius, The Secret History
tags: history, history-of-mankind, misery, misery-loves-company, procopius, the-secret-history
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“...while cleverness is appropriate to rhetoric, and inventiveness to poetry, truth alone is appropriate to history.”
― Procopius of Caesarea
tags: byzantium, history, justinian, roman-history, rome
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“For war is decided not by numbers of men nor their bodily size, but by the valor that is in the soul. Let the strongest motive that men have, then, enter your minds, namely pride in past achievement.”
― Procopius
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