The Secret History

Author: Procopius
Publisher: Penguin Group
Published: 12/18/2007
Pages: 176
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 7.70h x 6.47w x 0.43d
ISBN13: 9780140455281
ISBN10: 0140455280
BISAC Categories:
- History | Europe | Medieval
- History | Middle East | Turkey & Ottoman Empire
- History | Ancient | General

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

G.A. Williamson (1895-1982) was a Classical Exhibitioner at Worcester College, Oxford, graduating with a First Class Honours degree. He was Senior Classics Master at Norwich School from 1922 to 1960. He translated Josephus: The Jewish War (1959) and Procopius: The Secret History (1966) for the Penguin Classics. He died in 1982.