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Table of contents
Table of Contents
Titlepage
Imprint
Introduction
Foreword by the Historian
The Secret History
I
: How the Great General Belisarius Was Hoodwinked by His Wife, Whose Lover Became a Monk
II
: How Belated Jealousy Affected Belisarius’s Military Judgment, to the Joy of the Enemy
III
: Showing the Danger of Interfering with a Woman’s Intrigues, Especially When the Woman Is the Friend of an Empress
IV
: How Theodora, Revenging Her Dear Antonina, Humiliated the Conqueror of Africa and Italy
V
: How Theodora Tricked the General’s Daughter Into a Liaison with the Empress’s Nephew, and Belisarius Became a Public Laughing Stock
VI
: Ignorance of the Emperor Justin, and His Stencilled Signature, and How His Nephew Justinian Was the Virtual Ruler
VII
: Outrages of the Blues
VIII
: Character and Appearance of Justinian
IX
: And How Theodora, Most Depraved of All Courtesans, Won His Love
X
: How Justinian Created a New Law Permitting Him to Marry a Courtesan on Her Promise to Repent Her Past; and the Truth About the Apparent Quarrels of a Happy Pair
XI
: How the Defender of the Faith Ruined His Subjects
XII
: Proving That Justinian and Theodora Were Actually Fiends in Human Form
XIII
: Deceptive Affability and Piety of a Tyrant
XIV
: Justice for Sale
XV
: How an Roman Citizens Became Slaves, and a Complaining Patrician Was Ribaldly Mocked by Theodora’s Eunuchs
XVI
: What Happened to Those Who Fell Out of Favor with Theodora
XVII
: How She Saved Five Hundred Harlots from a Life of Sin, Made Away with Her Own Natural Son, and Other Curious Incidents of Her Passion for Match Making
XVIII
: How Justinian Killed a Trillion People
XIX
: How He Seized All the Wealth of the Romans and Threw It Away in the Sea and on the Barbarians
XX
: Debasing of the Quaestorship
XXI
: The Sky Tax, the Selling of All Offices, and How Border Armies Were Forbidden to Punish Invading Barbarians
XXII
: Further Corruption in High Places
XXIII
: How Landowners Were Ruined
XXIV
: Unjust Treatment of the Soldiers, and How Justinian Tricked the “Students” Out of Their Pay by Threatening to Send Them to War
XXV
: How He Robbed His Own Officials, Merchants, Sailors, Workmen, and Everybody Else
XXVI
: How He Spoiled the Beauty of the Cities and Plundered the Poor
XXVII
: How the Defender of the Faith Protected the Interests of the Christians
XXVIII
: His Violation of the Laws of the Romans, and How Jews Were Fined for Eating Lamb
XXIX
: Other Incidents Revealing Him as a Liar and a Hypocrite
XXX
: Further Innovations of Justinian and Theodora, and a Conclusion Which Imagines the Death of an Emperor
Endnotes
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Landmarks
The Secret History
Endnotes