Forgotten Generals: Assigned from Above and Confirmed from Below

The greatest General of the Byzantine empire captured Carthage and was thus granted the very last Triumph. Blinded by the Emperor, he spent his last years in poverty - who was he?

The answer to this question is Belisarius, who became known to history as 'the last of the Romans'. But how many can honestly say they know much about this man, who, as well as being the victor at the Battle of Dara that brought peace to Persia, suppressed an uprising at the hippodrome in Constantinople by massacr...