Theodora : actress, empress, saint / David Potter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Potter, David, 1957- author.

Series:

Women in antiquity.

Women in Antiquity

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Theodora, Empress, consort of Justinian I, Emperor of the East, -548.

Theodora.

Theodora, approximately 497-548 östromersk kejsarinna.

Empresses--History.

Empresses.

Byzantine Empire--History--Justinian I, 527-565.

Byzantine Empire.

Local Subjects:

Theodora, Empress, consort of Justinian I, Emperor of the East, -548.

Theodora, approximately 497-548 östromersk kejsarinna.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed September 4, 2015).

ISBN:

0-19-939253-6

0-19-939239-0

OCLC:

919201208