Belisarius & Antonina: Love and War in the Age of Justinian (2024)

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9780197574737

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9780197574706

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Parnell, David Alan, Belisarius & Antonina: Love and War in the Age of Justinian (New York, 2023; online edn, Oxford Academic, 22 June 2023), https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197574706.001.0001, accessed 15 May 2024.

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He was a famous general, victor over the Persians, conqueror of the Vandals and Ostrogoths. She was a first-rate political operative, deposer of a pope, wielder of influence. Together, Belisarius and Antonina were the most powerful couple of the sixth-century Roman world, excepting only their sovereigns and friends, the Emperor Justinian (r. 527–565) and Empress Theodora. Belisarius and Antonina found strength in their marriage, which was not just a romance but also an enormously successful partnership. Antonina traveled around the Mediterranean with Belisarius, accompanying him on military campaigns to Mesopotamia, North Africa, and Italy. Together, the pair restored Roman rule to North Africa and Italy. Together, they deposed Pope Silverius in Rome and selected his replacement. Together, they became one of the wealthiest and most powerful couples in the Roman world. However, their relationship was far from perfect. Belisarius and Antonina occasionally argued over their children. Their constant historian, Procopius of Caesarea, accused Antonina of having an incestuous affair with her adopted son, and Belisarius of being too weak to put a stop to it. Even their public careers sometimes went off the rails, as when Belisarius was disgraced for plotting when Justinian fell ill with the plague that would eventually bear his name. Through it all, the partnership of Belisarius and Antonina sustained the couple. It was, without doubt, the most important nonroyal marriage of the century.

Keywords: warfare, Roman, ancient, Justinian, Byzantine, marriage, scandal

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Ancient and Classical Art (to 500 CE)

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