| Secret History of Procopius Contributor(s): Atwater, Richard (Translator) |
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ISBN: 076617039X ISBN-13: 9780766170391 Publisher: Kessinger Publishing OUR PRICE: $29.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2003 Annotation: The historian Procopius was not a Latin. He was born in Caesarea in Palestine about 500 AD, and apparently was one of those Samaritans whom he mentions in the "Secret History" as adopting Christianity for formal protection and not at all for spiritual reasons. In the following text, the chapter divisions are those of the manuscript. Here is a narrative with the fascination of the elder Dumas; but it is more than a collection of anecdotes of intrigue, it is a history, in which the purple past of Rome lives again in spirited pictures, thrown, if you care for a further metaphor, upon the screen of the present. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Christianity - History - History | Essays - Literary Collections |
| Physical Information: 0.71" H x 9.46" W x 10.04" (1.52 lbs) 300 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Christian |
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