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PARNELL, D. A., Belisarius & Antonina. Love and War in the Age of Justinian. Oxford University Press, 2023. 272p. Hardback. 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. David Potter, University of Michigan Aug 2023 |a 11/08/2023 (Publisher's information). € 27.16 (New) (approx. delivery time: 14 days) ISBN: 9780197574706