Jamie Pachino, author of Bailiwick Repertory’s intriguing and exasperating “Theodora: An Unauthorized Biography,” sets no small goal: She wants to rescue the Byzantine Empress The… ...

Together, Emperor Justinian I and Empress Theodora I transformed the Byzantine landscape. The ranks of Eastern Orthodox saints are filled with celibates and monastics, but not all Orthodox saints ...

Prokopios was the court historian of the Byzantine Empire’s most well-known rulers, Emperor Justinian and Empress Theodora. In his other two books, On Wars and On Buildings, ...

THEODORA AND THE EMPEROR (336 pp.) —Harold Lamb—Doubleday ($4.50).The only surprising thing about Theodora and the Emperor is that it took Harold Lamb so long to get around to it. Subject ...

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Born into a family of circus performers, Theodora was a mime, a prostitute and then a high-placed concubine before meeting and marrying the future emperor Justinian, who was the longest reigning ...

A GOOD historical novel, excellent for summer reading. It is a narrative based on the life of Theodora, wife of the Roman emperor Justinian; a short book, written in a forceful style, rather ...