Prokop von Caesarea
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Beschreibung
Prokop (6th century AD) came from Caesarea in Palestine and received a rhetorical and juridical education. From 527 onwards, he was a secretary and legal adviser on the staff of the emperor’s commander Belisar, whom he accompanied to all the battlefields. In his main work (“Wars”, Bella), stylistically and linguistically oriented towards the classical models of Greek historiography, he described the wars of Emperor Justinian (527–565) against the Persians, the Vandals in North Africa and the Goths in Italy. As a supplement to this work, he wrote a polemic (invective) under the title Anékdota (“The Unpublished”), in which he painted the image of the emperor and his entourage in the darkest colours, while in a panegyric entitled “Buildings” (De aedificiis) he glorified the same emperor, especially his work as a builder – a paradox that is difficult to interpret.
In this introduction, the three works of Prokop are presented in detail and overarching themes, especially the claim to truth, the sources, the credibility and method as well as Prokop’s historical thinking, are dealt with according to the current state of research.
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Dariusz Brodka
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Anékdota Belisar Bella Caesarea De aedificiis Einführung Geschichtsschreibung Griechisch Kaiser Justinian Krieg Palästina Prokop Spätantike