Why is Belisarius not more famous?

Why is Belisarius not more famous?

Complete western disinterest in Roman history past 486 AD.

There aren't many details on him as much as say Hannibal's tactics.

Would have been more famous had his accomplishments not turn to ash after a few centuries. Did he even receive a triumph?

Yeah? He's the only non-emperor to receive one during the imperial era.

Right hand men never are, its always the king's name that we remember, nor their subordinartes, no matter how great at their jobs they might have been.

See: Subutai, Potemkin, Agrippa

FPBP.

You remember them. That's enough.

It is all the fault of this porky Anglo charlatan

>dude they weren't even Romans lmao

The byzantine bs comes from triggered franks.

What is Nikephoras Phokas?

A Greek LARPer

t. Edward Gibbon.

...An emperor?

I'm pretty sure he was never given a triumph prior to ascending to the throne, although he did get an ovation.

He was given a triumph. As was Bardas Phokas prior to his rebellion. The Macedonian dynasty seem to have been less concerned with maintaining an imperial monopoly on the honour.

Who cares about what the plebs remember? They hardly understand the significance of anything in the grand scheme of things. The people worth impressing are the people who will dive into history to figure out how things came to be, and those people will always recognize the major subordinates who made things happen.

Why is James K Polk not more famous?

It actually comes from Germans. Even Franks called Eastern Romans just "Greeks" instead of this "Byzantine" bullshit.

Because of that shitty haircut

because he destroyed cute Vandal and Ostrogoth semi-Roman states and the conquered territories were instantly overrun by barbarians

Carthage held out for over a century and a half.

JUST

Bump for Belisarius.

He was overshadowed by Justinian himself, who took all the credit.

They somehow managed to teach us about Justinian without even mentioning anything about the reconquest at all.