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[edit] This should be two articles!

Since this article actually discusses the lives of both Byzantine Narseses, I suggest breaking it up. This article could be turned into a disambig. page redirecting to Narseh of Persia, and articles with names along the lines of Narses (general under Justinian) and Narses (general under Maurice). What say you all? --Jfruh 20:22, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)

OK, upon review, the vast majority of articles that linked to Narses refer either to the main guy profiled here (the eunuch general) or to the Sassanian king Narseh (I fixed links to the latter). There are no wikilinks that refer to the second fellow. I'll make a Narses (general under Maurice) page and link to it from the appropriate spots. There is one wikilink to a Saint Narses; I'll make a stub page for him. Finally, I'll make a Narses (disambiguation) page.

[edit] Intent of first sentence?

The first sentence says this:

'Narses ... was with Belisarius, one of the great generals in the service of ... Justinian during the so-called "Reconquest" ...'

Is the intended meaning really the following (note the comma)?

'Narses ... was, with Belisarius, one of the great generals in the service of ... Justinian during the so-called "Reconquest" ...'

That is, is Narses notable because he "was with Belisarius" or because "was one of the great generals..."? Molinari 18:12, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

Ah. I see that the comma was added on August 19. Molinari 18:59, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Redundancy and omissions

This article sounds like it has been patched up once too often. After describing in detail (and third grade English) how Narses defused the Nika rebellion, it tells us again several pages later that Narses helped quash the rebellion. On the other hand, it leaves out a crucial bit of information that I would be curious to know: how did a man with both ability and impressive ancestry wind up in Constantinople as a castrated slave? Could the pedigree have been fake? 76.122.75.89 (talk) 02:19, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

I would think that Narses was probably captured by some wars between one of Justinian's predecessors and the Persians/Armenians. However, I cannot confirm this, as sources to Narses' life is relatively limited, seeing that history seems to have ignored him mostly. --Benedict of Constantinople (talk) 07:36, 3 June 2008 (UTC)