Procopius: The Secret History
CONTENTS
>1. How the Great General Belisarius Was Hoodwinked by His Wife
>2. How Belated Jealousy Affected Belisarius's Military Judgment
>3. Showing the Danger of Interfering with a Woman's Intrigues
>4. How Theodora Humiliated the Conqueror of Africa and Italy
>5. How Theodora Tricked the General's Daughter
>6. Ignorance of the Emperor Justin, and How His Nephew Justinian Was the Virtual Ruler
>7. Outrages of the Blues
>8. Character and Appearance of Justinian
>9. How Theodora, Most Depraved of All Courtesans, Won His Love
>10. How Justinian Created a New Law Permitting Him to Marry a Courtesan
>11. How the Defender of the Faith Ruined His Subjects
>12. Proving That Justinian and Theodora Were Actually Fiends in Human Form
>13. Perceptive Affability and Piety of a Tyrant
>14. Justice for Sale
>15. How All Roman Citizens Became Slaves
>16. What Happened to Those Who Fell Out of Favor with Theodora
>17. How She Saved Five Hundred Harlots from a Life of Sin
>18. How Justinian Killed a Trillion People
>19. How He Seized All the Wealth of the Romans and Threw It Away
>20. Debasing of the Quaestorship
>21. The Sky Tax, and How Border Armies Were Forbidden to Punish Invading Barbarians
>22. Further Corruption in High Places
>23. How Landowners Were Ruined
>24. Unjust Treatment of the Soldiers
>25. How He Robbed His Own Officials
>26. How He Spoiled the Beauty of the Cities and Plundered the Poor
>27. How the Defender of the Faith Protected the Interests of the Christians
>28. His Violation of the Laws of the Romans and How Jews Were Fined for Eating Lamb
>29. Other Incidents Revealing Him as a Liar and a Hypocrite
>30. Further Innovations of Justinian and Theodora, and a Conclusion

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Eastern despot.
Murderer.
Literal demon from hell.