The Last Great Roman General? Belisarius and the Wars of Justinian (All Parts)

We hope you enjoy the ALL PARTS edition of our Belisarius series! No sponsors, seamless joins and a very small number of factual corrections. (Callinicum was fought on Holy Saturday, not Easter Sunday; Belisarius probably tried to delay the Goths at the Salarian Bridge, not Milvian.. that sort of thing). Thanks again to Legendarian for providing 'Total War: Attila' gameplay footage, links in description. And big thanks to our series consultant Professor David Parnell of Indiana University Northwest, who is well worth a follow on Twitter @ByzantineProf. If you want to watch the series with SUBTITLES, you will need to watch the individual episodes youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUOc2qodFHp8x5tpVvVyATU…. And don't forget you can support our work and get ad-free early access to new videos via Patreon! www.patreon.com/EpicHistoryTV

Dude it’s honesty so insane the amount of opportunities this man had to betray Justinian and didn’t, only for him to still be skeptical of him in the end

Belasarus: “I won’t accept any new emperor other than Justinian” Justinians wife: “This must be treason!!” 😱

Belisarius: is away for five minutes everything starts dramatically falling apart

Belisarius was the General that Justinian didn’t deserved

I can only imagine the emotions of Belisarius, and his men, as they rode into Rome after 70 years of it not being under imperial rule.

The lifetime of Belisarius itself was like watching a 5 seasons of historical drama series involving battles, plague, and loyalty. Thank goodness this video can summarized his entire campaigns under 3 hours

I forgot it's not even a Hollywood movie and I was at the edge of my seat waiting for what's going to happen next. The team that created this is truly epic! Props to the voice over guy.

The reign of Justinian sometimes feels like a dream, between the fall of the west and the arab invasions there was this brief moment where it seemed the empire is great again at its full might. But shortly after we're reminded that Rome is still falling and unable to cling on to a gone geopolitical status quo

Belisarius deserves a major film

I get more excited for these than actual movies with millions of dollars of production value, what a great way to spend 2 hours! Thanks for all the hard work!

Ten minutes into the video, I bought the first six books of History of the Wars. Thanks for the inspiration!

He doesn’t have a perfect record, but he seriously did way better than he had any right to do. With limited troops and money and ineffective/disloyal sub-commanders. I often think of him alongside Agrippa as two capable generals who held the empire up, while lesser men would have torn it down in a civil war

Belisarius have some mistakes at first, but man this general is easily one of the best in history. He won battles with armies much more smaller, poor eqquiped and with few supplies. He is a masterpiece commander and understand the mind of humans and leaders like no one else and not only that his diplomacy skills are top notch. First avoiding war with persians and second saving Rome, thank God. He has all qualities from the mos maiorum and deserve be called the last roman. Also the epic history have one of the greatest documentaries I ever seen, your team is unmatch and would make all this generals and kings happy for portraying their lives pretty well.

Belisarius managed to live an abnormally long life. He pops up here and there through history, but it's his achievements in the 41st Millennium that are his true crowning moments.

''Give me a Empire of Humble Origins! Give me a Hero of Law and Order!...Give us The Roman Empire!''

It sounds like General Flavius Belasarius is one of the greatest commanders of all time based on this written knowledge... There is NO EXCUSE as to why modernity does not teach more of what this man accomplished. There should be movies about Belasarius and every school should have chapters about him in history class. Very underappreciated.

Belisarius has got to be the busiest General in history 😳

Fun fact: During the reign of later Byzantine emperor Romanos I Lekapenos (r. 920-944), one of his generals, John Kourkouas, was hailed as the second coming of Belisarius because of his monumental victories against the Arabs, which laid the foundation of the later Macedonian Renaissance under Nikephoros II Phokas, John I Tzimiskes, and Basil II the Bulgar-Slayer. This just shows you that four centuries later, the Byzantines still held Belisarius in high regard, and held him as a standard to which others were compared.

I'm surprised there isn't some kind of people's choice awards for content creators because these guys definitely deserve some type of recognition for absolutely superb content like this in my humble opinion.