Byzantine Empress Theodora, would become an actress, prostitute, mistress, feminist, empress of the civilized world, and ...

Emperor Justinian I and Empress Theodora were the 6th Century golden couple of the Byzantine Empire. Think Jay-Z and Beyonce - but with a lot more chariots. Script and narration by Emma Nagouse ...

Forget Beyoncé and Jay-Z, Justinian and Theodora were the power couple of the Byzantine era. From withstanding riots to protecting women’s rights, how did a woman from such humble beginnings ...

This underground system was built during the reign of Emperor Justinian and his empress, Theodora. It took 14 years of hard labor to dig out the tons of earth and rocks beneath the city.

THEODORA AND THE EMPEROR (336 pp ... the peasant emperor loses in stature and the prostitute empress takes on a regal aspect. Justinian is seen as a dull, lifelong scholar, a grubber for ...

These words, which Dante Alighieri places in the mouth of Justinian I, emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire ... It was during this time that Belisarius received the order from Empress Theodora to ...

Instead of praising Justinian’s reign and his reconquest of the West, the “Secret History” is a vehement attack on the ...

Teodora, a Roman courtesan and former slave girl, marries the Roman emperor Justinian and assumes the throne as Empress of Rome. But a love affair with a handsome Greek whom she meets in Byzantium ...

Built by the Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I ... of conformity to his theology. Justinian's generosity to widows was most likely a function of his wife Theodora's influence, whose life and ...