Anecdote
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An anecdote is "a story with a point", such as to communicate an abstract idea about a person, place, or thing through the concrete details of a short narrative or to characterize by delineating a spe
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Procopius
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Procopius of Caesarea was a prominent Greek scholar and historian from Caesarea in Palestine. Accompanying the Byzantine general Belisarius in Emperor Justinian's wars, Procopius became the principal
Anecdote
…a special realism" and "a claimed historical dimension". The word anecdote (in Greek: ἀνέκδοτον "unpublished", literally "not given out") comes from Procopius of Caesarea, the biographer of Emperor Justinian I (r. 527–565). Procopius produced c. 550 CE a work entitled Ἀνέκδοτα (Anekdota, variously translated as Unpublished…
Sixth century mosaic depicting Emperor Justinian
Sixth century mosaic possibly depicting Belisarius in the Church of San Vitale, Ravenna, which celebrates the reconquest of Italy by the Byzantines.
Triumphal arch at the entrance to the Sangarius Bridge