Book · 550 · Nonfiction

The Secret History

Name: The Secret History
Author: Procopius

Penguin Classics (Penguin Random House) · 176 pages

★ 6.7 editorial score

Justinian's official historian kept a second book he could not publish: the emperor a demon pacing the palace at night without a head, the empress insatiable. Nothing from antiquity carries this much hatred.

Genre

History Political history

Subject

Roman Empire Scandal Corruption

Setting

Istanbul

Time

550Depicts Byzantine PeriodDepicts 6th century

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