It was difficult to determine exactly which archive this article fits in. It covers so many aspects that are discussed on David Icke's website and his books. Of particular interest to the Reptilian Archives is

The history told here also reveals the depths of fraud, perversion, corruption, and murder that the non-human government went to installing Christianity as their 'government approved' - NEW One World Religion. The historian relates too, how Justinian did not even attempt to live by the religion he zealously forced on the people. (Sound familiar? Clinton and Kosovo) Christianity was the chosen religion, since it was the religion of submission, in particular 'submission to authority' and because it had been miserably adulterated from the truth and facts.

It also tells of another holocaust, which included natural catastrophes, used to Justinian's advantage. (FEMA- Justinian Style). Justice in Justinian courts was for sale. (Bar Association? Judges on the bench due to favors by corrupt government leaders)

If we were to simply change the names in the story, we could almost envision, this same history overlayed on todays current events. This to say, that history repeats itself, over and over and over, again.

Procopius: Secret History, translated by Richard Atwater, (Chicago: P. Covici, 1927; New York: Covici Friede, 1927), reprinted, Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1961, with indication that copyright had expired on the text of the translation.

INTRODUCTION

[Paul Halsall]

Procopius of Caesarea (in Palestine) [born c.490/507- died c.560s] is the most important source for information about the reign of the emperor Justinian [born 482/3, ruled. 527-565] and his wife Theodora [d. 547/8]. From 527 to 531 Procopius was a counsel the great general of the time, Belisarius [505-565]. He was on Belisarius's first Persian campaign [527-531], and later took part in an expedition against the Vandals [533-534]. He was in Italy on the Gothic campaign until 540, after which he lived in Constantinople, since he describes the great plague of 542 in the capital. His life after that is largely unknown, although he was given the title illustris in 560 and in may have been prefect of Constantinople in 562-3.

He wrote a number of official histories, including On the Wars in eight books [Polemon or De bellis], published 552, with an addition in 554, and On the Buildings in six books [Peri Ktismaton or De aedificiis], published 561. He also left a "Secret History" [Anecdota, i.e. "unpublished things", not "anecdotes"], probably written c. 550 and published after his death, which was a massive attack on the character of Justinian and his wife Theodora. Parts are so vitriolic, not to say pornographic [esp. Chapter 9], that for some time translations from Greek were only available into Latin [Gibbon - in Ch. 40 of Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire wrote about Theodora that "her arts must be veiled in the obscurity of a learned language ", and then went on to quote the passage in Greek with Latin comments!]

The Secret History claims to provide explanations and additions that the author could not insert into his work on the Wars for fear of retribution from Justinian and Theodora. Since both before and afterward, Procopius wrote approvingly of the emperor, it was suggested in the past that he was not the author of the work, but it is now generally accepted that Procopius wrote it. Analysis of text, which show no contradictions in point of fact between the Secret History and the other works, as well a linguistic and grammatical analysis makes this a conclusive opinion.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

• Alemannus, editio princeps, (Lyons: 1623) [with omission of one section thought to be indecent.]
• Maltretus, (Paris: 1663) [with omissions].
• Comparetti, (Rome: 1898)
• Procopius, Opera Omnia, 3. Vols., (Leipzig: 1905-13), ed. J. Haury, rev. G. Wirth, 4 Vols., (Teubner Series), (Leipzig, 1962-64). Now the standard edition. Vol 3 of the Haury-Wirth version contains the Secret History
• Procopius: The Anecdota of Secret History, translated by H.B. Dewing, (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1935), Vol VI of the seven volume Loeb translation, which includes the Buildings and the Wars in parallel Greek and English texts. Greek text based on Haury.
  

• Procopius: Secret History, translated by Richard Atwater, (New York: Covici Friede; Chicago: P. Covicii, 1927), reprinted, Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1961, - the version available here.
• Procopius: The Anecdota of Secret History, translated by H.B. Dewing, (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1935), Vol VI of the seven volume Loeb translation, which includes the Buildings and the Wars.
• Cameron, Averil, Procopius: History of the Wars, Secret History, and Buildings, translated, edited and abridged, (New York: 1967)
• Procopius: Secret History, translated by G.A. Williamson, (New York: Penguin, 1966) - this is the most easily available print version.
  

• Beck, Hans Georg, Kaiserin Theodora und Prokop : der Historiker und sein Opfer, (Munich: Piper, c1986)
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• Cameron, Averil, Procopius and the Sixth Century, (Berkeley : University of California Press, c1985) - probably the best place to start.
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• Browning, Robert, Justinian and Theodora, 2nd ed., (London: 1971, 198?)
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• Bradshaw, Gillian, The Bearkeeper's Daughter, (Houghton Mifflin Company, 1987). Justinian and Theodora in the later years of her life from the perspective of Theodora's illegitimate son who is passed off as her nephew.
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• Graves, Robert, Count Belasarius, (New York : Literary Guild, 1938; London: Cassell, 1938) Graves narrates the life of perhaps the most glamorous Byzantine general. Given Graves gripping view of the early Empire in I, Claudius and Claudius the God, the availability of Procopius as a source, and the dramatic events and personalities of Belasarius's career, it is hard to see how Graves could have failed. Most readers though seem to find the novel pedestrian and, frankly, boring.
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Procopius: The Secret History

CONTENTS

By the Historian

1. How the Great General Belisarius Was Hoodwinked by His Wife
2. How Belated Jealousy Affected Belisarius's Military Judgment
3. Showing the Danger of Interfering with a Woman's Intrigues
4. How Theodora Humiliated the Conqueror of Africa and Italy
5. How Theodora Tricked the General's Daughter
6. Ignorance of the Emperor Justin, and How His Nephew Justinian Was the Virtual Ruler
7. Outrages of the Blues
8. Character and Appearance of Justinian
9. How Theodora, Most Depraved of All Courtesans, Won His Love
   
   Part Two
   
   
10. How Justinian Created a New Law Permitting Him to Marry a Courtesan
11. How the Defender of the Faith Ruined His Subjects
12. Proving That Justinian and Theodora Were Actually Fiends in Human Form
13. Perceptive Affability and Piety of a Tyrant
14. Justice for Sale
15. How All Roman Citizens Became Slaves
16. What Happened to Those Who Fell Out of Favor with Theodora
17. How She Saved Five Hundred Harlots from a Life of Sin
18. How Justinian Killed a Trillion People
19. How He Seized All the Wealth of the Romans and Threw It Away
    
    Part Three
    
    
20. Debasing of the Quaestorship
21. The Sky Tax, and How Border Armies Were Forbidden to Punish Invading Barbarians
22. Further Corruption in High Places
23. How Landowners Were Ruined
24. Unjust Treatment of the Soldiers
25. How He Robbed His Own Officials
26. How He Spoiled the Beauty of the Cities and Plundered the Poor
27. How the Defender of the Faith Protected the Interests of the Christians
28. His Violation of the Laws of the Romans and How Jews Were Fined for Eating Lamb
29. Other Incidents Revealing Him as a Liar and a Hypocrite
30. Further Innovations of Justinian and Theodora, and a Conclusion
    

Introduction
Part One - Intro-10
Part Two - Chap 11-20
Part Three - Chap 21-30

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