The Secret History
BY THE HISTORIAN
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. DECEPTIVE 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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