LEADER 02559nam 2200613 450 001 9910797579503321 005 20230807221639.0 010 $a0-19-939253-6 010 $a0-19-939239-0 035 $a(CKB)3710000000465900 035 $a(EBL)2198486 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001667627 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)16456827 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001667627 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)15001971 035 $a(PQKB)10832809 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC2198486 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL2198486 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11093622 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL825795 035 $a(OCoLC)919201208 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000465900 100 $a20150901h20152015 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aTheodora $eactress, empress, saint /$fDavid Potter 210 1$aNew York, NY :$cOxford University Press,$d[2015] 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (289 p.) 225 1 $aWomen in Antiquity 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-19-069275-8 311 $a0-19-974076-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tConstantinople --$tTelling Nasty Stories --$tSex and the Stage --$tFactions and Networks --$tPatrician --$gThe$tSuccession --$tAugusta : The First Five Years --$tRevolution --$tWar and Religion --$tPlots and Plague --$tLast Years --$tLegacy. 330 $aTwo of the most famous mosaics from the ancient world, in the church of San Vitale in Ravenna, depict the sixth-century emperor Justinian and, on the wall facing him, his wife, Theodora (497-548). This majestic portrait gives no inkling of Theodora's very humble beginnings or her improbable rise to fame and power. Raised in a family of circus performers near Constantinople's Hippodrome, she abandoned a successful acting career in her late teens to follow a lover whom she was legally forbidden to marry. When he left her, she was a single mother who built a new life for herself as a secret agent 410 0$aWomen in antiquity. 606 $aEmpresses$xHistory 607 $aByzantine Empire$xHistory$yJustinian I, 527-565 607 $aByzantine Empire$2fast 615 0$aEmpresses$xHistory. 676 $a949.5013 676 $a949.5013092 700 $aPotter$b David$013877 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910797579503321 996 $aTheodora$93860910 997 $aUNINA