Theodora: actress, empress, saint
by Potter, D. S., (David Stone)
Two of the most famous mosaics from the ancient world, in the church of San Vitale in Ravenna, depict the sixth-century emperor Justinian and, on the wall facing him, his wife, Theodora (497-548). This majestic portrait gives no inkling of Theodora's very humble beginnings or her improbable rise to fame and power. Raised in a family of circus performers near Constantinople's Hippodrome, she abandoned a successful acting career in her late teens to follow a lover whom she was legally forbidden t…
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Two of the most famous mosaics from the ancient world, in the church of San Vitale in Ravenna, depict the sixth-century emperor Justinian and, on the wall facing him, his wife, Theodora (497-548). This majestic portrait gives no inkling of Theodora's very humble beginnings or her improbable rise to fame and power. Raised in a family of circus performers near Constantinople's Hippodrome, she abandoned a successful acting career in her late teens to follow a lover whom she was legally forbidden to marry. When he left her, she was a single mother who built a new life for herself as a secret agent.
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- Publication Date:©2015
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- Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication:New York, NY
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2015
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- Description:1 online resource : : illustrations, maps
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780199392391, 0199392390
- oclc:ocn919201208
- LC Classification:DF572.5
- Dewey Decimal:949.5/013
Table of Contents
Cover; Series; Theodora; Copyright; Contents; Maps; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Constantinople; 2 Telling Nasty Stories; 3 Sex and the Stage; 4 Factions and Networks; 5 Patrician; 6 The Succession; 7 Augusta: The First Five Years; 8 Revolution; 9 War and Religion; 10 Plots and Plague; 11 Last Years; 12 Legacy; Dramatis Personae; Timeline; Abbreviations; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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