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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