Format:
1 Online-Ressource (289 pages)
ISBN:
9780199392391
Series Statement:
Women in antiquity
Content:
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
Note:
Cover; Series; Theodora; Copyright; Contents; Maps; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Constantinople; 2 Telling Nasty Stories; 3 Sex and the Stage; 4 Factions and Networks; 5 Patrician; 6 The Succession; 7 Augusta: The First Five Years; 8 Revolution; 9 War and Religion; 10 Plots and Plague; 11 Last Years; 12 Legacy; Dramatis Personae; Timeline; Abbreviations; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780199740765
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Theodora: Actress, Empress, Saint
Language:
English
Keywords:
Theodora Byzantinisches Reich, Kaiserin 497-548
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Author information:
Potter, David S. 1957-
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