David Alan Parnell is Associate Professor of History at Indiana University Northwest and author of Justinian's Men: Careers and Relationships of Byzantine Army Officers, ca. 518-610.

This is a splendid analysis of one of the great power couples of Late Antiquity. Outsiders both, Belisarius and Antonina, were alternatively welcome and unwelcome to their contemporaries; their lives together were objects of potent contemporary image making as well as intensely hostile gossip. Parnell does a masterful job untangling the complex traditions stemming from the ambiguity of their positions, both at the time and the later myths surrounding them. In so doing, he offers a valuable picture of the Roman Empire in the sixth century from a fresh perspective.

• Introduction1. The World of Antonina2. General of the East3. Victory in Africa4. The Eternal City5. From Rome to Ravenna6. Trying Times7. Italy Redux8. Twilight of a Power Couple9. Afterlife and LegendAppendix 1: Dramatis PersonaeAppendix 2: TimelineAppendix 3: The Wealth of BelisariusBibliography

David Alan Parnell is Associate Professor of History at Indiana University Northwest and author of Justinian's Men: Careers and Relationships of Byzantine Army Officers, ca. 518-610.

This is a splendid analysis of one of the great power couples of Late Antiquity. Outsiders both, Belisarius and Antonina, were alternatively welcome and unwelcome to their contemporaries; their lives together were objects of potent contemporary image making as well as intensely hostile gossip. Parnell does a masterful job untangling the complex traditions stemming from the ambiguity of their positions, both at the time and the later myths surrounding them. In so doing, he offers a valuable picture of the Roman Empire in the sixth century from a fresh perspective.

• Introduction1. The World of Antonina2. General of the East3. Victory in Africa4. The Eternal City5. From Rome to Ravenna6. Trying Times7. Italy Redux8. Twilight of a Power Couple9. Afterlife and LegendAppendix 1: Dramatis PersonaeAppendix 2: TimelineAppendix 3: The Wealth of BelisariusBibliography

David Alan Parnell is Associate Professor of History at Indiana University Northwest and author of Justinian's Men: Careers and Relationships of Byzantine Army Officers, ca. 518-610.

This is a splendid analysis of one of the great power couples of Late Antiquity. Outsiders both, Belisarius and Antonina, were alternatively welcome and unwelcome to their contemporaries; their lives together were objects of potent contemporary image making as well as intensely hostile gossip. Parnell does a masterful job untangling the complex traditions stemming from the ambiguity of their positions, both at the time and the later myths surrounding them. In so doing, he offers a valuable picture of the Roman Empire in the sixth century from a fresh perspective.

• Introduction1. The World of Antonina2. General of the East3. Victory in Africa4. The Eternal City5. From Rome to Ravenna6. Trying Times7. Italy Redux8. Twilight of a Power Couple9. Afterlife and LegendAppendix 1: Dramatis PersonaeAppendix 2: TimelineAppendix 3: The Wealth of BelisariusBibliography