Procopius of Caesarea : Tyranny, History, and Philosophy at the End of Antiquity.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Classicism and Its Discontents -- The Preface of the Wars -- A Typology for Classicism -- A Distorting Mirror? -- Introducing the Secret History and the Buildings -- 2 Tales Not Unworthy of Trust: Anecdotes and the Persisan War -- Arcadius and Isdigerdes(1.2.1-10) -- Anatolius and Vararanes (1.211-15) -- Ephthalites, Persians, and Romans (1.3.1-1.4.13) -- The Pearl of Perozes (1.4.14-31) -- The Tyranny of Cavades (1.5-7) -- The "History of the Armenians" (1.5.7-40) -- 3 The Secret History of Philosophy -- The Sequence of Regimes Ends in Tyranny -- Tyranny and the Politics of Philosophy -- Plato's Nightmare -- Platonic Texts, Platonic Readers -- 4 The Representation of Tyranny -- Chosroes and Justinian, "Emperors of East and West -- Vanity of Vanities": Despotism and Imperial Ceremony -- The Rule of Women" and the plan of Secret History 1-5 -- Laws, Demons, and the Limits of Classicism in the Secret History -- Alternatives and Solutions -- 5 God and Tyche in the Wars -- Christianity? -- Coping with Tyche -- The Supremacy of Tyche in the Vandal War -- The Struggle Between Virtue and Tyche in the Gothic War -- Catastrophe in the Persian War -- Tyche and God in Book 8 of the Wars -- Precedents and Conclusions -- Appendix 1. Secret History 19-30 and the Edicts of Justinian -- Appendix 2. The Plan of Secret History 6-18 -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.

A major new study of the last great historian of classical antiquity.

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