Procopius of Caesarea
Tyranny, History, and Philosophy at the End of Antiquity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19903584 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anthony Kaldellis (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Pages | 320 |
| Publication date | 2004-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Procopius of Caesarea (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | University of Pennsylvania Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.9783/9780812202410 |
| OpenAlex | W1524597974 |
| Open Library | OL33428248M |
| ISBN | 9780812202410 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 64 |
Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Classicism and Its Discontents Preface of the Wars -A Typology of Classicism -A Distorting Mirror? -Interdicting the Secret and the Buildings 2. Tales Not Unworthy of Trust: Anecdotes and the Persian War -Arcadius and Isdigerdes (1.2.1-10) -Anatolius and Vararanes (1.2.11-15) -Ephthalites, Persians, and Romans (1.3.1-1.4.13) Pearl of Perozes (1.4.14-31) Tyranny of Cavades (1.5-7) History of the Armenians (1.5.7-40) 3. The Secret of Philosophy Sequence of Regimes Ends in Tyranny -Tyranny and the Politics of Philosophy -Plato's Nightmare -Platonic Texts, Platonic Readers 4. The Representation of Tyranny -Chosroes and Justinian, Emperors of East and West -Vanity of Vanities: Despotism and Imperial Ceremony -The Rule of Women and the Plan of Secret 1-5 -Laws, Demons, and the Limits of Classicism in the Secret -Alternatives and Solutions 5. God and Tyche in the Wars Christianity? -Coping with Tyche Supremacy of Tyche in the Vandal War Struggle Between Virtue and Tyche in the Gothic War -Catastrophe in the Persian War -Tyche and God in Book 8 of the Wars -Precedents and Conclusions Notes Index
Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Classicism · Literature · Political science · Politics · Spanish Civil War · Theology · Virtue · Byzantine Studies and History · Classical Antiquity Studies · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies · History · Law · Philosophy · Cesarean section · Intellectual life · Procopius
War and Peace in Ancient and Medieval History
Greek Epigram and Byzantine Culture
Procopius
Justinian I
Government, theories of, Byzantine
Collapse of a Eurasian Hybrid
The Stateless Nomads of Central Eurasia
The Languages of Christianity on the Silk Roads and the Transmission of Mediterranean Culture into Central Asia
Sasanian Iran and Its Northeastern Frontier
Sasanian Iran and the Projection of Power in Late Antique Eurasia
Central Asia in the Late Roman Mental Map, Second to Sixth Centuries
Trade and Exchanges along the Silk and Steppe Routes in Late Antique Eurasia
Conclusion
Followers and Leaders in Northeastern Eurasia, ca. Seventh to Tenth Centuries
Patterns of Roman Diplomacy with Iran and the Steppe Peoples
Law and its applications
The Relations between China and the Steppe
“Charismatic” Goods
Ethnicity and Empire in the Western Eurasian Steppes
Aspects of Elite Representation among the Sixth- and Seventh-Century Türks
The Circulation of Astrological Lore and Its Political Use Between the Roman East, Sasanian Iran, Central Asia, India, and the Türks
Byzantium’s Eurasian Policy in the Age of the Türk Empire
Sogdian Merchants and Sogdian Culture on the Silk Road
How the Steppes Became Byzantine
Sacrifice, gifts, and prayers in Latin Christianity
The late Sasanian Near East
Infrastructures of Legitimacy in Inner Asia
Epilogue
Edward Gibbon and Late Antique Literature
Modern approaches to early Islamic history
The Cambridge History of Christianity
The New Cambridge History of Islam
O 'Código Justiniano' e as estratégias do poder imperial
“Nomoi” of Procopius
Two Weddings and a Funeral
Procopius and Thucydides
A Tangled Web
The Discourse on the Difference Between Audacity and Real Fortitude in De bellis by Procopius of Caesarea
Le patologie di Giustiniano e le profilassi mediche in voga nella Proto Bisanzio. Gli Adynata come eccezionale cura
Justinian, Pilgrimages and the Theotokos
The Vandal habrosýne and its Significance in Procopius’ Narrative on the Rise and Fall of the Vandal State
I. Yazdegerd, Aziz Marutha ve Sâsânî Kralının Değişen İmgeleri
Człowiek w obliczu epidemii - relacja Tukidydesa i Prokopiusza z Cezarei
Rome, China, and the Barbarians
Empires and Exchanges in Eurasian Late Antiquity
À propos de Procope, Vand., II, 9, 14. Pourquoi a-t-on refusé le patriciat à Gélimer, dernier roi des Vandales et des Alains
Les concepts en sciences de l’Antiquité
Jordanes, the Battle of the Catalaunian Plains, and Constantinople
Théodora. De la femme de l’empereur à la conseillère du prince
Networks and the City
Diplomatic relations between the eastern Roman empire and the “barbarian” successor states, 527–565
The mid-6th century AD enigmatic mega earthquake and tsunami in central Greece
The Byzantine conquest of Crete (961 AD), Prokopios’ Vandal War , and the Continuator of the Chronicle of Symeon
Late antiquity and Byzantium
John Lydus’ political message and the Byzantine idea of imperial rule
The Byzantine conquest of Crete (961 AD), Prokopios' Vandal War , and the Continuator of the Chronicle of Symeon
What Have Elephants to Do with Sixth-Century Politics
Building Meaning
The Historiography of Crisis
Coded Polemic in Ammianus Book 31 and the Date and Place of its Composition
The Speech of the Armenians in Procopius
Decline, Fall, and Transformation
The Social Networks of Justinian’s Generals
Les villes romaines victimes des guerres perses dans l'œuvre de Procope de Césarée
| Unique citing works | 64 |
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| Citations per year | 3,56 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2025 (18) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 64 |