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Count Belisarius

By Robert Graves, John Julius Julius Norwich (Contributor)

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| eBook | 9780141911380

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The sixth century was not a peaceful time for the Roman empire. Invaders threatened on all fronties, but they grew to respect and fear the name of Belisarius, the Emperor Justinian's greatest general. With this book Robert Graves again demonstrates his command of a vast historical subject, creating Continue

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Robert Graves

I, Claudius was a popular success when turned into a television series, but Graves' other historical novels seem to have been largely forgotten. With some of them reasons for this are not hard to find, but with others it is quite surprising. Count Be ... (read full critics)

dannyreviews published on Fri, 27 Aug 2010

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I intensely dislike Procopius, the narrating voice, I hate Antonina and the Imperial couple. My sympathy goes all to noble, brave, intelligent, misunderstood and ill-recompensed Belisarius. And since this must have been what Graves wanted, I must say he succeed admirably. The language reads a littl ... (continue)

I intensely dislike Procopius, the narrating voice, I hate Antonina and the Imperial couple. My sympathy goes all to noble, brave, intelligent, misunderstood and ill-recompensed Belisarius. And since this must have been what Graves wanted, I must say he succeed admirably. The language reads a little like a Greek-to-English version at School, but having read a few of Graves' academic works, I'm sure this is intended too.

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