ABSTRACT
Procopius of Caesarea developed a narrative about his own lifetime, which coincided with the government of the Emperor Justinian, in his Persian War. This chapter discusses the ways in which Procopius uses the magnitude of his object in the Persian War. The historian describes the battles chronologically within his Persian Wars, even though these clashes did not follow an ordained sequence. The axiological principle may be understood as the singular magnitude of the object as it is seen throughout the narrative. The claims of the superiority of the subject are associated with the use of superlatives at the beginning of the Persian War and also involve the authorial position in his narrative. The chapter suggests that could clarify the role of amplification statements in the Persian War: they contribute to shaping the knowledge about the reign of Justinian, in a positive or negative way, according to Procopius' purpose.
