The wars of Justinian
by Kaldellis, Anthony, Mladjov, Ian, Dewing, H. B., Procopius,, Caesariensis
by Kaldellis, Anthony, Mladjov, Ian, Dewing, H. B., Procopius,, Caesariensis
A fully-outfitted edition of Prokopios' late Antique masterpiece of military history and ethnography-for the 21st-century reader
A fully-outfitted edition of "Prokopios'' late Antique masterpiece of military history and ethnography--for the 21st-century reader
A fully-outfitted edition of Prokopios' late Antique masterpiece of military history and ethnography--for the 21st-century reader. "At last ... the translation that we have needed for so long: a fresh, lively, readable, and faithful rendering of Prokopios' Wars, which in a singl…
Although Greek and Roman authors wrote ethnographic texts describing foreign cultures, ethnography seems to disappear from Byzantine literature after the seventh century C.E.-a perplexing exception for a culture so strongly self-identified with the Roman empire. Yet the Byzantin…
This explores the modes and motivations of Byzantine ethnographic writing, shedding new light on how Byzantines distinguished themselves from foreign cultures.