The secret history with related texts

Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 6
Introduction......Page 8
A Note on the Translation and the Spelling of Names......Page 61
Acknowledgments......Page 63
Timeline......Page 64
Glossary of Offices and Administrative Terms......Page 66
The Family of Justinian......Page 67
The Family of Theodora......Page 68
The Eastern Mediterranean in the Reign of Justinian......Page 69
The Environs of Constantinople in the Reign of Justinian......Page 71
Constantinople......Page 72
A Guide to the Main Sources......Page 73
A Guide to Scholarship in English......Page 78
THE SECRET HISTORY......Page 81
Preface......Page 82
The Affair of Antonina......Page 84
The Emasculation of Belisarios......Page 96
The Crimes of Sergios and Solomon......Page 105
The Origin of Justinian......Page 107
Unleashing the Hippodrome Fan-Clubs......Page 111
Justinian\'s Governance and Physical Appearance......Page 115
Theodora\'s Background......Page 119
Taming the Hippodrome Fan-Clubs......Page 123
The Marriage of Justinian and Theodora......Page 124
Justinian and Theodora Unanimously Sow Dissension......Page 127
The Tyranny of Justinian: Botched Foreign Policy and Religious Persecution......Page 129
Senators Whose Property Was Seized......Page 135
The Demonic Nature of Justinian and Theodora......Page 137
Justinian\'s Lifestyle and His Corruption of Laws......Page 140
The Lifestyle and Crimes of Theodora......Page 147
More Victims of Theodora......Page 150
The Destruction of the World by the Demon Justinian......Page 159
Justinian\'s Greed and Profligacy......Page 166
Corrupting the Highest Offices......Page 168
Petros Barsymes and the Praetorian Prefecture......Page 175
Impoverishing the Landowners......Page 180
Shortchanging the Troops......Page 184
Squeezing the Merchants......Page 188
Degrading All Classes of Society, Especially the Poor......Page 192
Various Episodes Illustrating Justinian\'s Character......Page 198
The Scandal at Emesa......Page 202
Justinian\'s Hypocrisy......Page 204
Various Ill-Intentioned Reforms......Page 208
1. A Law for the Marriage of Justinian and Theodora (Codex Iustinianus 5.4.23)......Page 212
2. The Nika Riots (Wars 1.2)......Page 215
3. Theodora Helps Monophysite Saints (Yuhannan of Amida, Lives of the Saints)......Page 224
4. The Convent of Repentance: A Different View by Prokopios (Buildings 1.9.1-10)......Page 229
5. An Attempt to Curb Corruption in the Provinces (Justinian, Novella 8, Preface)......Page 231
6. A Contemporary Philosopher\'s View of Justinian\'s Tyranny (Simplikios, Commentary on Epiktetos 14.19-32)......Page 235
7. The Downfall of Iohannes the Kappadokian (Wars 1.25 and 2.30.49-54)......Page 236
8. The Justinianic Plague (Wars 2.22-23)......Page 243
9. Porphyrios the Whale and Other Natural Disasters (Wars 7.29.4-20)......Page 250
10. A Plot to Kill Justinian (Wars 7.31-32)......Page 252
11. Silkworms Are Smuggled into the Roman Empire (Wars 8.17.1-8)......Page 260
INDEX......Page 262