Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Chapter 1. Classicism and Its Discontents 17
6. Chapter 2. Tales Not Unworthy of Trust: Anecdotes and the Persian War 62
7. Chapter 3. The Secret History of Philosophy 94
8. Chapter 4. The Representation of Tyranny 118
9. Chapter 5. God and Tyche in the Wars 165
10. Appendix 1. Secret History 19-30 and the Edicts of Justinian 223
11. Appendix 2. The Plan of Secret History 6-18 229
12. Abbreviations 231
13. Notes 233
14. Bibliography 275
15. Index 299