Essays Tagged: "Belisarius"
Waterwheels
siege in the year 537 AD, the Goths shut off the aqueducts whose water drove the city's gristmills. Belisarius, the Bzyantine general defending the city, ordered floating mills installed close to the ...
Subjects: Science Essays
The Success of Procopius
History, published long after Justinian's reign, portrays the Emperor Justinian, his wife Theodora, Belisarius, Antonina as well as the rest of society in ways not documented by any other historians. ... dent, forceful and strong-mind tone throughout the book.Procopius begins the book with the story of Belisarius, a general of Byzantine, and his unfaithful wife, Antonina. Claiming that Antonina had a ...
Subjects: Art Essays