{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/proc/shp/shp01.htm","path":"cla/proc/shp/shp01.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/proc/shp/shp01.htm","text":"The Secret History of Procopius, tr. by Richard Atwater, [1927]\n| | Introduction | 1 | \n| | Foreword by the Historian | 23 | \n| I. | How the great General Belisarius Was Hoodwinked by His Wife, Whose Lover Became a Monk | 27 | \n| II. | How Belated Jealousy Affected Belisarius's Military Judgment, to the Joy of the Enemy | 35 | \n| III. | Showing the Danger of Interfering with a Woman's Intrigues, Especially When the Woman Is the Friend of an Empress | 45 | \n| IV. | How Theodora, Revenging Her Dear Antonina, Humiliated the Conqueror of Africa and Italy | 53 | \n| V. | How Theodora Tricked the General's Daughter Into a Liaison with the Empress's Nephew, and Belisarius Became a Public Laughing Stock | 63 | \n| | p. vi | | \n| VI. | Ignorance of the Emperor Justin, and His Stencilled Signature; and How His Nephew Justinian Was the Virtual Ruler | 73 | \n| VII. | Outrages of the Blues | 80 | \n| VIII. | Character and Appearance of Justinian | 90 | \n| IX. | And How Theodora, Most Depraved of All Courtesans, Won His Love | 98 | \n| X. | How Justinian Created a New Law Permitting Him to Marry a Courtesan On Her Promise to Repent Her Past; and the Truth About the Apparent Quarrels of a Happy Pair | 109 | \n| XI. | How the Defender of the Faith Ruined His Subjects | 117 | \n| XII. | Proving that Justinian and Theodora Were Actually Fiends in Human Form | 127 | \n| | p. vii | | \n| XIII. | Deceptive Affability and Piety of a Tyrant | 137 | \n| XIV. | Justice for Sale | 145 | \n| XV. | How An Roman Citizens Became Slaves, and a Complaining Patrician Was Ribaldly Mocked by Theodora's Eunuchs | 151 | \n| XVI. | What Happened to Those Who Fell Out of Favor with Theodora | 159 | \n| XVII. | How She Saved Five Hundred Harlots from a Life of Sin, Made Away with Her Own Natural Son, and Other Curious Incidents of Her Passion for Match Making | 167 | \n| XVIII. | How Justinian Killed a Trillion People | 178 | \n| XIX. | How He Seized All the Wealth of the Romans and Threw It Away In the Sea and On the Barbarians | 188 | \n| | p. viii | | \n| XX. | Debasing of the Quaestorship | 193 | \n| XXI. | The Sky Tax, the Selling of All Offices, and How Border Armies Were Forbidden to Punish Invading Barbarians | 200 | \n| XXII. | Further Corruption in High Places | 207 | \n| XXIII. | How Land Owners Were Ruined | 216 | \n| XXIV. | Unjust Treatment of the Soldiers, and How Justinian Tricked the \"Students\" Out of Their Pay by Threatening to Send Them to War | 223 | \n| XXV. | How He Robbed His Own Officials, Merchants, Sailors, Workmen, and Everybody Else | 231 | \n| XXVI. | How He Spoiled the Beauty of the Cities and Plundered the Poor | 239 | \n| | p. ix | | \n| XXVII. | How the Defender of the Faith Protected the Interests of the Christians | 250 | \n| XXVIII. | His Violation of the Laws of the Romans, and How Jews Were Fined for Eating Lamb | 257 | \n| XXIX. | Other Incidents Revealing Him as a Liar and a Hypocrite | 262 | \n| XXX. | Further Innovations of Justinian and Theodora, and a Conclusion Which Imagines the Death of an Emperor | 270 |","title":"The Secret History of Procopius: Contents","type":"page"}