The thicker the border, the more information.This article offers a survey of scholarship on the historian Procopius of Caesarea in the last eleven years (2003-2014).

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As elsewhere onsite, the header bar at the top of each chapter's webpage will remind you with the same color scheme. In the table of contents above, the sections are therefore shown on blue backgrounds, indicating that I believe the text of them to be completely errorfree. This transcription has been minutely proofread. ( Well-meaning attempts to get me to scan text, if successful, would merely turn me into some kind of machine: gambit declined.) Similarly, for citation purposes, the Loeb edition pagination is indicated by local links in the sourcecode.Īs almost always, I retyped the text by hand rather than scanning it - not only to minimize errors prior to proofreading, but as an opportunity for me to become intimately familiar with the work, an exercise which I heartily recommend: Qui scribit, bis legit. The small section numbers mark local links, according to a consistent scheme you can therefore link directly to any passage. (Details here on the copyright law involved.)Ĭhapter and Section Numbering, Local Links

The translation is now in the public domain pursuant to the 1978 revision of the U. S. Copyright Code, since the copyright expired in 1963 and was not renewed at the appropriate time, which would have been that year or the year before. VI of its edition of Procopius, but theīy H. B. Dewing is a good critique and addresses the dating of the work as well. The Loeb edition gives no information about the manuscripts, at least not in Vol. (The on-target 'Subject' captions in the index below, which I cannot improve on, are those of the Atwater translation taken in turn from an unidentified manuscript tradition.) For convenience, in the navigation bar at the bottom of each Chapter, I've provided a link to the corresponding chapter of Atwater.Īs with most ancient authors, not that much is known of Procopius biographical material may appear onsite by and by: for now see Atwater's translation is less stodgy than Dewing's, and to those with no Greek, the intersection of two different translations, both of them good, will be useful. There is another English version of the Secret History online: translated by Richard Atwater in 1927, reprinted in 1963 by the University of Michigan, it has been made available I don't intend for the moment to transcribe the original Greek text since the paucity of readers of ancient Greek out there make it a case of diminishing returns, and at any rate VI of the Loeb Classical Library edition of that historian, published in 1935. This site transcribes the English translation of Procopius' work by H B Dewing as printed in Vol.

The Secret History by Procopius