The Early Centuries - Byzantium 01 by John Julius Norwich

Author:John Julius Norwich [Norwich, John Julius]
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: History, Non Fiction, Z
ISBN: 9780140114478
Publisher: London : Penguin, 1990, c1988.
Published: 1990-06-14T23:00:00+00:00

To this end he had recalled him from Mesopotamia in the autumn of 531. Already two years before, the young commander had been promoted to be magister militum per orientem, in which capacity he had inflicted an overwhelming defeat on a far superior Persian army at Dara, some twenty miles north-west of Nisibis. His military gifts were unquestioned: his personal courage had been proved again and again, and he was a natural leader of men. He had but one liability: his wife, whom he married soon after his return from the East. Antonina's background was not unlike that of her Empress. She too had been brought up in the theatre and the circus and her past, if not as lurid as Theodora's, was certainly far from stainless. At least twelve years older than her husband - Procopius says twenty-two - she had already had several children, in or out of wedlock. Unlike Theodora, she made no attempt to reform her character after her prestigious marriage, and in the years to come was to cause her husband much embarrassment and not a little anguish; but Belisarius, it seems, continued to love her and -perhaps to keep his eye on her as much as for any other reason - was accustomed to take her with him on all his campaigns.

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