Graves, Count Belisarius (1980)
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Abbreviation
Graves, Count Belisarius (1980)
Form of publication
Book
Robert Graves, Count Belisarius (Penguin Books Ltd, 2nd ed, Harmondsworth 1980)
ISBN / ISSN
ISBN 0 14 00.1025 4
First edition
Publisher of first edition
Cassels
Date of publication of first edition
1938
Data
Count Belisarius (first published in 1938) is the fourth historical novel written by this exceptional figure of Classics, Robert Graves, and an erudite par excellence. The subject is Justinian’s age (sixth century) through the life of the noble general Belisarius, “the one man who could save the Roman Empire”. Foreword (1938) pp. 7-8. Five maps at the end of the book: Constantinople, The Eastern Frontier, The World, AD 527, Italy and Africa, The Defences of Rome, AD 527. Total pages, 422.
Key words
Adrianople / Edirne.
Africa, Late Antiquity.
Antioch / Antakya.
Asian Turkey, South / Southern Turkey.
Belisarius, general.
Blues, Circus faction.
Byzantine Africa.
Byzantine Constantinople, Early Byzantine period.
Byzantine Empire.
Byzantine hippodrome.
Byzantine society.
Cavalry.
Colchis.
Constantinople, Hippodrome.
Dara / Daras.
Early Byzantine period.
Early Byzantine Syria.
Goths.
Greens, Circus faction.
Hippodrome.
Iberia / Georgia.
Italy.
Justinian I.
Justinian I, wars.
Justinian I, works.
Late Antiquity.
Middle East, Byzantine provinces.
Monophysites / Monophysitism.
North Africa.
Northern / Upper Mesopotamia.
Palace, palaces.
Persian army.
Persians.
Procopius / Prokopios of Caesarea.
Ravenna.
Rome.
Sasanids / Sassanian Persians.
Syria.
Theodora, augusta.
Thrace, Early Byzantine period.
Vandal state.
Vandals, people.
War.
Whale.