The Secret History

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1. Imprint
2. Introduction
3. Foreword by the Historian
4. I: How the Great General Belisarius Was Hoodwinked by His Wife, Whose Lover Became a Monk
5. II: How Belated Jealousy Affected Belisarius’s Military Judgment, to the Joy of the Enemy
6. III: Showing the Danger of Interfering with a Woman’s Intrigues, Especially When the Woman Is the Friend of an Empress
7. IV: How Theodora, Revenging Her Dear Antonina, Humiliated the Conqueror of Africa and Italy
8. V: How Theodora Tricked the General’s Daughter Into a Liaison with the Empress’s Nephew, and Belisarius Became a Public Laughing Stock
9. VI: Ignorance of the Emperor Justin, and His Stencilled Signature, and How His Nephew Justinian Was the Virtual Ruler
10. VII: Outrages of the Blues
11. VIII: Character and Appearance of Justinian
12. IX: And How Theodora, Most Depraved of All Courtesans, Won His Love