Belisarius & The Byzantine Empires
Ancient Warfare Podcast
The History Network
4.4 • 631 Ratings
🗓️ 16 November 2010
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Belisarius & The Byzantine Empires
Jasper and the team are joined by Ian Huges, author of “Belisarius: The Last Roman General”, to discuss Ancient Warfare issue IV-3, and further explore subjects brought up in the magazine.
Belisarius was one of the greatest Generals of the Eastern Roman Empire, under the Emperor Justinian. He was key to a revival of Roman fortunes.
Dur: 38min
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Ancient Warfare Magazine podcast produced by the History Network. If you have any |
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| 0:23.9 | You can also find all the History Network podcasts by going to www.thehistorynetwork.org. |
| 0:32.8 | Hello everyone. We're back with another Ancient Warfare podcast discussion. We still have some catching up to do, |
| 0:40.3 | so it's not been very long since the previous episode of our podcast series. This time we're |
| 0:47.2 | going to discuss Ancient Warfare issue 4-3, Justinians Fariamen, Belisarius, and the Byzantine Empire. |
| 0:54.0 | I am the editor of Ancient Warfare, Jasper Orthaus, and with me tonight are Lindsay Powell, |
| 0:59.0 | Michael Taylor and Murray Dam. |
| 1:00.8 | Hi, guys. |
| 1:02.0 | Hello. |
| 1:03.1 | And we have a special guest today, Ian Hughes, author of a recent book about Belisarius |
| 1:08.8 | and an even more recent book about the Roman General Stilico. |
| 1:13.7 | Ian, thank you very much for joining us tonight. |
| 1:16.9 | Pleasure to be here. |
| 1:18.7 | So what should we start this discussion off with? |
| 1:22.3 | It's a pretty broad subject. |
| 1:24.3 | Michael, I believe you had an idea. |
| 1:26.8 | I guess maybe one question for Ian is how close to |
| 1:31.2 | Belisarius and Justinian, how close do they actually come to actually putting the Roman Empire |
| 1:37.5 | back together again? Or is it just sort of a pipe dream that's undertaken with insufficient |
| 1:42.4 | troops and insufficient resources. |
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