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Article: Heraclius, Emperor of Byzantium.(Book Review)
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- History Today
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- October 1, 2003
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Walter E. Kaegi
Cambridge University Press. xii + 359pp [pounds sterling] 50, US$70 ISBN: 0 521 81459 6
'HERACLIUS STILL APPEARS TO BE one of the strangest and most incoherent figures that history has recorded. His reign is still considered as alternations of wondrous actions and inaction'. It is this inadequate conclusion from a biograpby of 1905 that Professor Kaegi seeks to confront in this full and detailed life of the Byzantine emperor, Heraclius. It is a major challenge. The sources for Heraclius' life are diverse and discordant and remain virtually silent on his personality. He offended as many as he impressed and his defeats were every hit as ...
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