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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 improbablerise 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

Author

David Stone Potter

Publisher

IRL Press at Oxford University Press

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9780190692759

Subjects

History, Biography, Historical Fiction

Rating

3.45 / 5 (32 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14