02559nam 2200613 450 991079757950332120230807221639.00-19-939253-60-19-939239-0(CKB)3710000000465900(EBL)2198486(SSID)ssj0001667627(PQKBManifestationID)16456827(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001667627(PQKBWorkID)15001971(PQKB)10832809(MiAaPQ)EBC2198486(Au-PeEL)EBL2198486(CaPaEBR)ebr11093622(CaONFJC)MIL825795(OCoLC)919201208(EXLCZ)99371000000046590020150901h20152015 uy| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrTheodora actress, empress, saint /David PotterNew York, NY :Oxford University Press,[2015]©20151 online resource (289 p.)Women in AntiquityDescription based upon print version of record.0-19-069275-8 0-19-974076-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.Constantinople --Telling Nasty Stories --Sex and the Stage --Factions and Networks --Patrician --TheSuccession --Augusta : The First Five Years --Revolution --War and Religion --Plots and Plague --Last Years --Legacy.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 agentWomen in antiquity.EmpressesHistoryByzantine EmpireHistoryJustinian I, 527-565Byzantine EmpirefastEmpressesHistory.949.5013949.5013092Potter David13877MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910797579503321Theodora3860910UNINA