Hilarious stories by this man include an account of a singular giant whale named Porphyrion that disrupted his nation's sea trade for over fifty years.
Hilarious stories by this man include an account of a singular giant whale named Porphyrion that disrupted his nation's sea trade for over fifty years. This man surmised that his monarch was the "lord of the demons" in a work opening with stories about the adulterous Antonina. This author penned a five-book survey that heavily lauds aqueducts, his Buildings, which also described a team of workers under (*) Anthemius of Tralles. His best known work, called the Anecdota in Latin, famously tells of a lurid entertainer who prayed for more than three orifices to satisfy herself and performed in popular sex shows with geese before marrying way, way up. This man also used that work to criticize a confiscatory construction project in the wake of the Nika riots. For 10 points, name this author who scathingly attacked the Byzantine Empress Theodora and her husband Justinian in his Secret History.
Hilarious stories by this man include an account of a singular giant whale named Porphyrion that disrupted his nation's sea trade for over fifty years.
Procopius of Caesarea