To: Verginius Rufus
Read Procopius' Secret History. Theodora was the Hillary Clinton of her day.
I've read it several times. I consider it the equivalent of the Weekly World News of Constantinople. It accuses Justinian of, among other things, being a demon in human form, walking around the palace at night without a head, of being able to transform his face into a shapeless mass of flesh, and being responsible for the death of a trillion people.
Honestly, I don't think Procopius actually wrote it but it was an expertly done ancient forgery by Justinian's enemies that used his name to add credibility.
18 posted on
03/12/2019 8:08:42 AM PDT by
Antoninus
("In Washington, swamp drain you.")
To: Antoninus
Interesting theory about the authorship of the
Anekdota. I will have to take another look at it.
Do you know if any scholar has ever argued in print that the Secret History was not really written by Procopius?
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