![]() ![]() He may have attended law school, possibly at Berytus (present-day Beirut) or Constantinople (now Istanbul), and became a lawyer ( rhetor). He would have received a conventional upper class education in the Greek classics and rhetoric, perhaps at the famous school at Gaza. He was a native of Caesarea in the province of Palaestina Prima. Accompanying the Roman general Belisarius in Emperor Justinian's wars, Procopius became the principal Roman historian of the 6th century, writing the History of the Wars, the Buildings, and the Secret History.Īpart from his own writings, the main source for Procopius's life was an entry in the Suda, a Byzantine Greek encyclopaedia written sometime after 975 which discusses his early life. 500 – 565) was a prominent late antique Greek scholar and historian from Caesarea Maritima. Procopius of Caesarea ( Greek: Προκόπιος ὁ Καισαρεύς Prokópios ho Kaisareús Latin: Procopius Caesariensis c. ![]()
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