Procopius of Caesarea ( Latin: Procopius Caesarensis, ; c. AD 500 – c. AD 565 ) was a prominent Byzantine scholar from Palaestina Prima.

* Procopius of Caesarea, historian

The story told in the opera is quite different from the real one, despite the fact that Zeno claimed to use several historical sources ( Evagrius Scholasticus l. 2. c. 7, Procopius of Caesarea, Historia Vandalorum, l. 1, Paul the Deacon, vi ): Ricimer captures Rome, frees his sister Teodolinda and enslaves Placidia, daughter of Valentinian III ; a little later, Olybrius frees Rome and Placidia, and marries her.

He was the pupil of Procopius of Gaza, who must be distinguished from Procopius of Caesarea, the historian.

Evagrius builds upon the documents written by Zachariah, Symeon Stylites the Elder, Eustathius of Epiphania, John Malalas, Zosimus, and Procopius of Caesarea.

The 6th-century Byzantine historian Procopius of Caesarea ( Book I. ch.

The exemplar secret history is the Anecdota of Procopius of Caesarea ( known for centuries as the Secret History ).

The word ' anecdote ' ( in Greek: " unpublished ", literally " not given out ") comes from Procopius of Caesarea, the biographer of Justinian I, who produced a work entitled ( Anekdota, variously translated as Unpublished Memoirs or Secret History ), which is primarily a collection of short incidents from the private life of the Byzantine court.

This flood is mentioned in the writings of the court historian Procopius of Caesarea.

On the other hand, authors such as Ammianus Marcellinus ( 4th century ) or Procopius of Caesarea ( 6th century ) were able to keep the tradition of classical historiography alive.

Ein Beitrag zur Historiographie der Völkerwanderung und des sinkenden Römertums ( Procopius of Caesarea )

During 5th and 6th centuries, several writers ( Marcellinus Comes, Orosius, John Lydus, Isidore of Seville, Procopius of Caesarea ) used the same ethnonym Getae to name populations invading the Eastern Roman Empire ( Goths, Gepids, Kutrigurs, Slavs ).

Belisarius ' fleet during the Vandalic War, as described by Procopius of Caesarea, was apparently at least partly fitted with lateen sails, making it probable that by the time the lateen had become the standard rig for the dromon, with the traditional square sail gradually falling from use in medieval navigation.

Byzantine scholar Procopius of Caesarea described the Otherworld beliefs of the ancient Gauls.

The Lazic War is narrated in detail in the works of Procopius of Caesarea and Agathias.

* Procopius of Caesarea ( c. 500-c. 565 ), an Eastern Roman historian and writer

* Great martyr Procopius of Caesarea in Palaestina ( 303 )

Basic information about Armenian pagan traditions were preserved in the works of ancient Greek authors such as Plato, Herodotus, Xenophon and Strabo, Byzantine scholar Procopius of Caesarea, as well as medieval Armenian writers such as Moses of Chorene, Agathangelos, Yeznik of Kolb, Sebeos and Anania Shirakatsi, not to mention oral folk traditions.

Procopius of Caesarea famously derided them as " a crowd of pitiable peasants who come into battle for no other purpose than to dig through walls and to despoil the slain and in general to serve the soldiers the cavalrymen ".

Procopius reports that Kaleb ( whom he calls Hellesthaeus ) with the help of Justin, the Roman Emperor, collected a fleet and crossed from Africa to Yemen, where he defeated Dhū Nuwas about the year 520 or 525 ( 1. 20 ).

Procopius calls them Meschoi and says that they were subject to the Iberians ( i. e., Georgians ), and had embraced Christianity, the religion of their masters.

Even so, Valens sent two legions to march on Procopius, who easily persuaded them to desert to him.

He then met Procopius himself at Nacoleia and convinced his troops to desert him.

According to Procopius, when summoned to surrender Gelimer instead asked Pharas to send him a loaf of bread, a sponge, and a lyre, to make the winter months on Pappua more bearable.

According to the Byzantine historian Procopius, " From the start, Yazdegerd was a sovereign whose nobility of character had won for him the greatest renown.

Procopius praised him as " both gentle and well-endowed with sagacity and thoroughly capable of valorous deeds.

Procopius, John Malalas, the Chronicon Paschale, and Zacharias called him " John the Cappadocian " for disambiguation reasons, as the name John ( Ioannes in Greek and Johannes in Latin ) were widely used by his time.

His contemporary historians were biased against him, particularly Procopius and Lydus, and their accounts are often coloured by their prejudices.

His next oration is addressed to Valens, congratulating him on his victory over Procopius in June 366, and interceding for some of the rebels ; it was delivered in 367.

Germanus is given a very favourable treatment in the work of Procopius, he openly praises him for his virtue, justice, and generosity, as well as for his energy and ability both as a soldier and an administrator.

With the help of some monks, they tried to escape, but Marcian failed, while Procopius fled in Thrace to Theodoric Strabo ( who refused to handle him to Zeno ) and then at Rome.

Ossetic bættən " bind ", bast " bound ") and Iranian * arna-" offspring ", equating it with the δουλόσποροι " slave Sporoi " mentioned by Nonnus and Cosmas, where Sporoi is the people Procopius mentions as the ancestors of the Slavs.

In his History of the Wars, Procopius mentions a story ( which Gibbon disbelieved ) where, on hearing the news that Rome had " perished ", Honorius was initially shocked ; thinking the news was in reference to a favorite chicken he had named " Roma ".

Procopius interpreted the name Visigoth as " western Goths " and the name Ostrogoth as " eastern Goth ", reflecting the geographic distribution of the Gothic realms at that time.

Procopius writes that he was " a very particular friend and guest-friend of Justinian, who had not yet come to the throne ", noting that Hilderic and Justinian exchanged large presents of money to each other.

According to the historian Procopius, Majorian, " who surpassed in every virtue all who have ever been emperors of the Romans ", wanted to know personally the military readiness of the Vandals and how the local populations would have reacted to the Roman invasion.

* Procopius, " Justinian Suppresses the Nika Revolt, 532 ", from the Internet Medieval Sourcebook.

Justinian rebuilt his birthplace in Illyricum, as Justiniana Prima, more in a gesture of imperium than out of an urbanistic necessity ; another " city ", was reputed to have been founded, according to Procopius ' panegyric on Justinian's buildings, precisely at the spot where the general Belisarius touched shore in North Africa: the miraculous spring that gushed forth to give them water and the rural population that straightway abandoned their ploughshares for civilised life within the new walls, lend a certain taste of unreality to the project.

Procopius mentions a story in which Honorius, on hearing the news that Rome had " perished ", was shocked, thinking the news was in reference to his favorite chicken he had named " Roma ".

* Jones, Arnold Hugh Martin, John Robert Martindale, John Morris, " Procopius Anthemius 9 ", Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, Volume 2, Cambridge University Press, 1980, ISBN 0-521-20159-4, p. 99.

The term dromōn ( literally " runner ") itself comes from the Greek root drom -( áō ), " to run ", and 6th-century authors like Procopius are explicit in their references to the speed of these vessels.

Soon after ( circa 529 ) he was raised by the Byzantine emperor Justinian I ( r. 527 – 565 ), in the words of the historian Procopius, " to the dignity of king ", becoming the overall commander of all the Empire's Arab allies ( foederati ) in the East with the title of patrikios (, " patrician and phylarch of the Saracens ").

Procopius then proceeded to use his blood, and that of his subordinates, to write the Euagetaematikon, or " Book of the Shining Blood ", the main scripture of the Cainite Heretics.