Justinian was one of the greatest emperors of the Roman Empire. He came the closest to achieving the Renovatio Imperii – the ‘renewal’ or restoration of the empire. In this episode he faces some of the most demanding trials of his illustrious reign. The conquest of Italy under the esteemed general Belisarius, the deadly war with Persia, and then the most disastrous – the Great Plague of Justinian. The “Justinianic Plague” is the popular name for a pandemic of bubonic plague in the Late Roman or Byzantine Empire, which first appears in our sources in 541 CE. The pandemic reappeared in waves in different regions over the next two hundred years, ending ca. 750 CE. https://www.stanrams.com/egyptian-persian-plagues-the-justinianic-plague/