The secret history with related texts
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Indianapolis :
Hackett Publishing Company
2010.
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| Ver en Red de Bibliotecas de la Archidiócesis de Granada: | https://catalogo.redbagranada.es/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=503971 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- A note on the translation and the spelling of names
- Acknowledgments
- Timeline
- Glossary of offices and administrative terms
- Genealogy of the family of Justinian
- Genealogy of the family of Theodora
- Map of the eastern Mediterranean in the reign of Justinian
- Map of environs of Constantinople in the reign of Justinian
- Map of Constantinople
- A guide to the main sources
- A guide to scholarship in English
- The secret history
- Related texts. A law for the marriage of Justinian and Theodora (Justin in Codex Iustinianus 5.4.23); The Nika riots (Wars 1.24); Theodora helps Monophysite saints (Yuhannan of Amida [John of Ephesos], Lives of the saints); The convent of repentance: a different view by Prokopios (Buildings 1.9.1-10); An attempt to curb corruption in the provinces (Justinian, Novella 8, preface); A contemporary philosopher's view of Justinian's tyranny (Simplikios, Commentary on Epiktetos 14.19-32); The downfall of Ioannes the Kappadokian (Wars 1.25 and 2.30.49-54); The Justinianic plague (Wars 2.22-23); Porphyrios the whale and other natural disasters (Wars 7.29.4-20); A plot to kill Justinian (Wars 7.31-32); Silkworms are smuggled into the Roman empire (Wars 8.17.1-8).
