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Belisarius attacks the Ostrogoths in Rome, 536
Hermann Vogel

According to the ancient sources, Belisarius presented himself as a liberator from the rule of the Ostrogoths and gave a speech that has been handed down to us by the sources. He proposed that they accept immediate liberation, arguing that the Neapolitans could avoid a war that would lead them to disaster or, even if they resisted, to an utterly pointless victory.

A heated debate then broke out within the city: Stephen and his colleague Antiochus proposed surrendering to Belisarius in order to win the favour of the emperor in Constantinople, while two other notables, Pastor and Asclepiodotus, advised resisting the Byzantines.

At first, the faction in favour of surrender was gaining the upper hand, so much so that Stephen resumed contact with Belisarius to settle the terms for handing over the city.

Hermann Vogel was a German illustrator, born in Plauen in 1854 and died in Munich in 1921. He trained at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts and specialised in depicting historical, mythological and fairy-tale scenes. He worked for various magazines and children's books, including Heinrich Hoffmann's famous Der Struwwelpeter. Among his best-known works are his illustrations for the works of Shakespeare, the Thousand and One Nights, the Brothers Grimm's fairy tales and Nordic legends. He also taught photography at the Berlin Polytechnic, where his pupils included Alfred Stieglitz, the future pioneer of art photography.