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Hardcover Theodora: Actress, Empress, Saint Book

ISBN: 0199740763

ISBN13: 9780199740765

Theodora: Actress, Empress, Saint

(Part of the Women in Antiquity Series)

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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...

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