Theodora : actress, empress, saint / / David Potter
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| Autore: |
Potter David
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| Titolo: |
Theodora : actress, empress, saint / / David Potter
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, NY : , : Oxford University Press, , [2015] |
| ©2015 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (289 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 949.5013 |
| 949.5013092 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Empresses - History |
| Soggetto geografico: | Byzantine Empire History Justinian I, 527-565 |
| Byzantine Empire | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Constantinople -- Telling Nasty Stories -- Sex and the Stage -- Factions and Networks -- Patrician -- ; The Succession -- Augusta : The First Five Years -- Revolution -- War and Religion -- Plots and Plague -- Last Years -- Legacy. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Theodora |
| ISBN: | 0-19-939253-6 |
| 0-19-939239-0 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910797579503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Women in antiquity.