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Theodora : actress, empress, saint /
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 ris...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2015]
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| Collection: | Women in antiquity.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
| Résumé: | 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. |
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| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780199392391 0199392390 |