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Antonina (Greek: Ἀντωνίνα, c. 484 or 495 – after 565) was a Byzantine patrician and wife of the general Belisarius. San Vitale basilica, Byzantine mosaic depicting Empress Theodora (6th century) flanked by a chaplain and a court lady believed to be her confidante Antonina, wife of general Belisarius
Paul Kastenellos is a nom de plume of Vincent O'Reilly, [1] the author of two novels of the Byzantine Empire: Antonina: A Byzantine Slut about the maligned wife of the famed sixth century Roman general Flavius Belisarius, and Count No Man Happy: A Byzantine Fantasy, which recounts the sad life of the Emperor Constantine VI who was blinded by his own mother in the eighth century.
Its existence was already known from the Suda, which referred to it as Procopius's "unpublished works" containing "comedy" and "invective" of Justinian, Theodora, Belisarius and Antonina. The Secret History covers roughly the same years as the first seven books of The History of the Wars and appears to have been written after they were ...
Map of the Byzantine-Persian frontier. Belisarius was born around the year 500, probably in Germania, [6] a fortified town of which some archaeological remains still exist, on the site of present-day Sapareva Banya in south-west Bulgaria, within the borders of Thrace and Paeonia, or in Germen, a town in Thrace near Orestiada, in present-day Greece. [7]
This list may not reflect recent changes. Belisarius; A. Antonina (wife of Belisarius) B. Battle of Ad Decimum; Battle of Melantias; Battle of Mindouos; Battle of ...
This is a list of book lists (bibliographies) on Wikipedia, organized by various criteria. General lists. List of 18th-century British children's literature titles;
Antonina, a genus of mealybugs; Antonina (name) Antonina (wife of Belisarius) (c. 495–after 565), Byzantine patrikia and wife of the general Belisarius; Antonina (Tur novel), by Evgenia Tur; Antonina (Collins novel), an 1850 novel by Wilkie Collins; Antonina Nutshell, Swedish drag queen who competed in Drag Race Sverige
In Herman Melville's Mardi (Chapters 25, 26, 28), Samoa's wife Annatoo is described as a Termagant, and metaphorically referred to as Antonina (wife of Belisarius) to Samoa's Belisarius. Explaining why she did not need the armaments on the ship, Melville writes "Her voice was a park of artillery; her talons a charge of bayonets." (Chapter 23.)
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