Kont Belisarios - Modern Klasikler 178

Count Belisarios - Modern Classics 178 Book Description The sixth century was not a peaceful time for the Roman Empire. Western Rome has collapsed, and Eastern Rome is under threat from the Vandals, Goths and Persians. These invaders fear only one person: Belisarios, the great general of the Byzantine Emperor Justinian. Belisarios, a good horseman, a skilled archer and swordsman, makes the people proud with his victories from the East to North Africa, while arousing jealousy and suspicion in the Emperor. The endless conflict between virtue and corruption is revealed in the relationship between Belisarios and Justinian. Robert Graves describes the wars on the Persian border, the deserts of North Africa, the Italian peninsula, religious conflicts, the Blue-Green team fights that divided Constantinople, and one of the most devastating plague epidemics in human history, the death of the eunuch Eugenios, the loyal servant of Belisarios' wife Antonina. He tells it from his own mouth. While doing this, he benefits from two chronicles written by Belisarios's secretary, Prokopios; One is the History of Wars, which is about the outstanding achievements of the general, and the other is the Secret History of Byzantium, which is full of spiteful gossip. It is noteworthy that Graves, who presented a slice of history in Count Belisarios, published in 1938, was able to describe the people of the period with vivid descriptions. (From the Promotional Bulletin)