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|image=Narses.jpg |image_size=250 |caption=Man traditionally identified as Narses, from the mosaic depicting Justinian and his entourage in the Basilica of San Vitale, Ravenna |birth_date=478 or 480 |death_date=566 or 573 |allegiance=Byzantine Empire |branch=Byzantine Army |rank=General |battles= }} Narses (also sometimes written Nerses; (アルメニア語:Նարսես); (ギリシア語:Ναρσής); 478–573) was, with Belisarius, one of the great generals in the service of the Byzantine Emperor Justinian I during the Roman reconquest that took place during Justinian's reign. A Romanized Armenian,〔“The new Byzantine commander there (), the Armenian eunuch Narses, proved a match for the daring Totila...” The Cambridge Ancient History, Vol. 14: Late Antiquity, p. 534 (2007)〕 Narses spent most of his life as an important eunuch in the palace of the emperors in Constantinople. ==Origins== Narses was of Armenian descent and a member of the Kamsarakan Armenian noble family.〔John H. Rosser. Historical Dictionary of Byzantium. — Scarecrow Press, 2011. — P. 199."''Armenians were a significant minority within the empire. In the sixth century, Justinian I's General Narses was Armenian. The emperor Maurice (582—602) may have been Armenian. In the ninth and 10th centuries there were several Armenian emperors, including Leo V, Basil I, Romanos I Lekapenos, and John I Tzimiskes. Theodora, the wife of Theophilios, was Armenian.''"〕 His first mention in a primary source is by Procopius in AD 530.〔Procopius, History Of The Wars I. xv.31. The Loeb Classical Library. Trans. H.B. Dewing. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1954) Vol. I 139. 〕 The year of Narses' birth is unknown; historians have given dates including 478, 479 and 480. The year of his death is also unknown, with dates given between 566 and 574, making him eighty-six to ninety-six years old at his death. His family and lineage is also completely unknown, with many different stories told about his origins and how he became a eunuch. Agathias Scholasticus of Myrina described him thus: “He was a man of sound mind, and clever at adapting himself to the times. He was not versed in literature nor practiced in oratory, () made for it by the fertility of his wits,” and as “small and of a lean habit, but stronger and more high-spirited than would have been believed.”〔Agathias Scholasticus cited by Fauber, L.H. Narses Hammer of the Goths. (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1990) 15.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Narses」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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