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Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Procopius (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) |
 | | Procopius, who is often held to be the last historian of Late Antiquity, was with Belisarius on the eastern front until Belisarius, after his defeat at the Battle of Callinicum in 531, was recalled to Constantinople. |
| | Procopius witnessed the Nika riots of January, 532, which Belisarius and his fellow general Mundo repressed with a massacre in the Hippodrome. |
| | Procopius belongs to the school of late antique secular historians who continued the traditions of the Second Sophistic; they wrote in Attic Greek, their models were Herodotus and especially Thucydides, and their subject matter was secular history. |
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