普罗柯比：秘史 (PBC)The Secret History

基本信息

Format:Paperback / softback 176 pages

Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd

Imprint:Penguin Classics

ISBN:9780140455281

Published:4 Oct 2007

Classifications:Ancient Rome, Literary essays, European history, Ancient history: to c 500 CE

Readership:General (US: Trade)

Weight:138g

Dimensions:196 x 130 x 13 (mm)

书籍信息仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

普罗科皮乌斯是拜占庭机构值得信赖的成员，是帝国的官方编年史，他的《查士丁尼战争史》宣扬了皇帝的统治力量和智慧。然而，在这段时间里，这位尽职尽责的抄写员正在编写一部非常不同的--而且是危险的--历史，只有在作者安全进入坟墓后才会出版。《秘史》将 "伟大的法律制定者 "查士丁尼描绘成一个腐败和粗暴的猖獗国王，将皇后狄奥多拉描绘成一个心存不轨的女人，将杰出的将军贝利萨留描绘成他诡计多端的妻子安东尼娜的柔弱的诱饵。

《秘史》是一部具有爆炸性能量的作品，将神圣的拜占庭描绘成一个谋杀和粗暴的地狱。

A trusted member of the Byzantine establishment, Procopius was the Empire's official chronicler, and his History of the Wars of Justinian proclaimed the strength and wisdom of the Emperor's reign. Yet all the while the dutiful scribe was working on a very different - and dangerous - history to be published only once its author was safely in his grave. The Secret History portrays the 'great lawgiver' Justinian as a rampant king of corruption and tyranny, the Empress Theodora as a sorceress and whore, and the brilliant general Belisarius as the pliable dupe of his scheming wife Antonina.

Magnificently hyperbolic and highly opinionated, The Secret History is a work of explosive energy, depicting holy Byzantium as a hell of murder and misrule.

作者简介

人们对普罗科皮乌斯知之甚少。他大约于公元500年出生在巴勒斯坦，在波斯、非洲和意大利为拜占庭帝国作战。

G. A. 威廉姆森（1895-1982年）还翻译了《约瑟夫： 犹太战争》（1959年）和《尤西比乌斯： 教会史》（1965年），为企鹅经典出版社出版。

彼得-萨里斯是大学早期中世纪历史讲师和剑桥大学三一学院的研究员。

Very little is known about Procopius. He was born in Palestine around AD 500 and fought for the Byzantine Empire in Persia, Africa and Italy.

G. A. Williamson (1895-1982) also translated Josephus: The Jewish Wars (1959) and Eusebius: The History of the Church (1965) for Penguin Classics.

Peter Sarris is a University Lecturer in Early Medieval History and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.