Theodora: Actress, Empress, Saint

by David Stone Potter

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199740763
• ISBN13: 9780199740765
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Oxford Univ PR
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"