The Secret History
by Procopius
“The original tell-all that the Byzantine Empire tried to bury.”
Go behind the glittering mosaics of the Byzantine Empire to discover the scandalous, suppressed reality of the imperial court. Procopius, the Emperor's own historian, strips away official propaganda to reveal a world of ruthless ambition and shocking depravity. This is the ancient world's ultimate tell-all—a forbidden chronicle of power that was never meant to be seen.
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