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![]() ![]() ![]() The work claims to expose the secret springs of their public actions, as well as the private lives of the emperor and his entourage. In the eyes of many scholars, the Secret History reveals an author who had become deeply disillusioned with Emperor Justinian, his wife Theodora, the general Belisarius, and his wife Antonina. Current consensus generally dates it to 550, or less commonly, 558. The Secret History covers roughly the same years as the first seven books of The History of the Wars and appears to have been written after they were published. Its existence was already known from the Suda, which referred to it as Procopius's "unpublished works" containing "comedy" and "invective" of Justinian, Theodora, Belisarius and Antonina. Procopius's now famous Anecdota also known as Secret History (Greek:, Apkryphe Histora Latin: Historia Arcana) was discovered centuries later at the Vatican Library in Rome and published in Lyon by Niccol Alamanni in 1623. ![]()
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