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 ...

When Belisarius and the Eunuch Narses conquered ... The rendering of Christ in armor for the Archbishop’s Chapel, a rare phenomenon in art, may reflect the warlike nature of the Byzantines ...

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 ...

Leading these campaigns, a brilliant Roman general named Flavius Belisarius - a skilled tactician, inspirational leader, pragmatic and humane. House cancels rest of votes for week after GOP floor ...

Hughes, who has written widely on the late Roman Army, including Aetius: Attila's Nemesis, gives us an excellent life and times of Flavius Belisarius (c. AD 505-5 65), the Emperor Justinian’s great ...