Count Belisarius Part 2 Of 2 Author:Robert Graves Part Two Of Two Parts The Roman general Belisarius was born in 499, the last year of a turbulent century, and died in 565, five years before the birth of Mohammed. Written from the perspective of the eunuch Eugenius, servant to Belisarius' wife, this is the story of Emperor Justinian's greatest general, who led the Imperial armies to the Easter... more »n Frontier on the Euphrates, across the Mediterranean to Carthage, and to Rome. "The work has unity, integrity and, above all, a quality of restraint which never permits the natural drama of events to pass into melodrama....COUNT BELISARIUS reads like a book of authentic personal history, merged into the history of the period of which it is a sober record." (The New York Times)« less