Editing Procopius (section)

==Legacy==
A number of [[historical novel]]s based on Procopius's works (along with other sources) have been written. ''[[Count Belisarius]]'' was written by poet and novelist [[Robert Graves]] in 1938. Procopius himself appears as a minor character in [[Felix Dahn]]'s ''[[A Struggle for Rome]]'' and in [[L. Sprague de Camp]]'s alternate history novel ''[[Lest Darkness Fall]]''. The novel's main character, archaeologist Martin Padway, derives most of his knowledge of historical events from the ''Secret History''.<ref>{{cite book|title=Lest Darkness Fall|last=de Camp|first=L. Sprague|date=1949|publisher=Ballantine Books|page=111}}</ref>

The narrator in [[Herman Melville]]'s novel ''[[Moby-Dick]]'' cites Procopius's description of a [[Porphyrios (whale)|captured sea monster]] as evidence of the narrative's feasibility.<ref>{{Cite book|doi=10.5962/bhl.title.62077|title=Moby-Dick, or, the Whale |last=Melville|first=Herman|date=1851|volume=c.1 |publisher=Harper & Brothers |location=London |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/126294 }}</ref>