Editing Procopius (section)

{{Short description|Byzantine historian (c. 500 – 565)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2025}}{{About|the historian and author of the ''Secret History''|other persons with the given name|Procopius (given name)|the spider genus|Procopius (spider)}}
{{Infobox writer
| name             = Procopius
| birth_date       = {{circa|lk=no|AD&nbsp;500}}
| birth_place      = [[Caesarea Maritima]], [[Palaestina Prima]], [[Eastern Roman Empire]]
| death_date       = {{circa|lk=no|AD&nbsp;565}}
| death_place      = [[Constantinople]]
| occupation       = Legal adviser, political commentator
| subject          = Secular history
| notableworks     = {{plainlist|
* ''History of the Wars''
* ''Buildings''
* ''Secret History''}}
}}

'''Procopius of Caesarea''' ({{IPAc-en|p|r|oʊ|ˈ|k|oʊ|p|i|ə|s}};<ref>{{Cite Merriam-Webster| Procopius}}</ref> {{langx|grc|Προκόπιος ὁ Καισαρεύς}} ''Prokópios ho Kaisareús''; {{langx|la|Procopius Caesariensis}}; {{c.|500}} – 565) was a prominent [[Late antiquity|late antique]] [[Byzantine Greeks|Greek]] scholar and historian from [[Caesarea Maritima]].<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Morcillo|first1=Jesús Muñoz|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=u0sFEAAAQBAJ|title=Genealogy of Popular Science: From Ancient Ecphrasis to Virtual Reality|last2=Robertson-von Trotha|first2=Caroline Y. |date=2020-11-30|publisher=Transcript|isbn=978-3-8394-4835-9|pages=332|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |editor-last1=Hornblower |editor-first1=Simon |editor-last2=Spawforth |editor-first2=Antony |editor-last3=Eidinow |editor-first3=Esther |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bVWcAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA1214 |title=The Oxford Classical Dictionary |date=2012 |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |isbn=978-0-19-954556-8 |pages=1214–1215 |language=en |quote=Procopius: Greek historian, born in *Caesarea (2) in Palestine c. AD 500.}}</ref> Accompanying the Roman general [[Belisarius]] in [[Justinian I|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''.