Count Belisarius
by Robert Graves
Count Belisarius is Robert Graves’s novel about Belisarius, the general commanding the armies of the eastern Roman emperor, Justinian. It’s a wonderful imagining of what Constantinople was like in the sixth century, with Theodora and Justinian knocking around, and the lively and scandalous events surrounding them. Belisarius, meanwhile, is ceaselessly running around the Empire trying to sort things out here, there and everywhere. It’s a great book.
