Maiorianus on MSN

Belisarius took Rome without a fight… then 50,000 Goths marched on the city

After sixty years under Gothic rule, Rome finally opened its gates to the armies of Emperor Justinian. Belisarius entered the ...
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Belisarius and the lightning conquest of the Vandal Kingdom

Belisarius faced the Vandals under King Gelimer, whose kingdom stretched across North Africa. Through discipline, ...
La Brújula Verde

Belisarius, the General Who Upheld Justinian’s Empire and Refused to Be Emperor of the West

I entrusted the care of arms to my Belisarius, and so favorable did the divine hand show itself to him that it gave me the security to live peacefully. These words, which Dante Alighieri places in the ...
War on the Rocks

History’s Model General? Reflections on the Life and Times of Belisarius

In 1780, the great neoclassical painter Jacques-Louis David completed one of his finest works. Entitled “Belisarius Begging for Alms,” the oil painting depicts an aging warrior, blinded with a hand ...
Time

Books: After the End

COUNT BELISARIUS—Robert Graves— Random House ($3). Sitting in the ruins of the Capitol at twilight, a 27-year-old Englishman named Edward Gibbon once dreamed of writing a massive work on the decline ...