id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-2801 Procopius - Wikipedia .html text/html 5396 543 63 after 565) was a prominent late antique Byzantine scholar from Palaestina Prima.[a] Accompanying the Byzantine general Belisarius in Emperor Justinian's wars, Procopius became the principal Byzantine historian of the 6th century, writing the History of the Wars, the Buildings, and the Secret History. Procopius was the author of a history in eight books on the wars prosecuted by Justinian, a panegyric on the emperor's public works projects throughout the empire, and a book known as the Secret History that claims to report the scandals that Procopius could not include in his officially sanctioned history for fear of angering the emperor, his wife, Belisarius, and the general's wife and had to wait until all of them were dead to avoid retaliation. Procopius's now famous Anecdota also known as Secret History (Greek: Ἀπόκρυφη Ἱστορία, Apókryphe Historía; Latin: Historia Arcana) was discovered centuries later at the Vatican Library in Rome[18] and published in Lyon by Niccolò Alamanni in 1623. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-2801.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-2801.txt