Belisarius & Antonina Audiobook Libro.fm

Belisarius and Antonina were titans in the Roman world some 1500 years ago Belisarius was the most wellknown general of his age victor over the Persians conqueror of the Vandals and the Goths and as if this were not enough wealthy beyond imagination She made a name for herself by traveling with Belisarius on his military campaigns deposing a pope and scheming to disgrace important Roman officials This unadulterated power and wealth did not mean that Belisarius and Antonina were universally successful in all that they undertook These failures knock them from their lofty perch humanize them and make them even more relatable and intriguing to us today

Belisarius amp Antonina is the first modern portrait of this unique partnership They were not merely husband and wife but also partners in power This is a paradigm which might seem strange to us as we reflexively imagine that marriages in the ancient world were staunchly traditional relegating wives to the domestic sphere only Their private and public lives blended as they traveled together sometimes bringing their children and worked sidebyside Theirs was without a doubt the most important nonroyal marriage of the late Roman world and one of the very few from all of antiquity that speaks directly to contemporary listeners