Theodora byzantine empress biography of william hill

The Empresses of Constantinople - Author: Joseph McCabe

THE EARLY LIFE OF THEODORA

The next Empress to occupy the superb apartments in the palace, with their couches of ivory and silver and their regiments of fawning eunuchs and silk-clad ladies, was assuredly one of the most remarkable figures that ever sat on a throne. The Empress Euphemia hardly ever issues into the pages of history from the becoming seclusion of the women’s quarters in the palace, but the few details which we have concerning her suggest the most incongruous figure that imagination could place in such a world, and a brief account of her romantic elevation is a necessary introduction to the equally remarkable and better-known story of the famous Empress Theodora. The Roman Empire seemed to be deterred by some faint recollection of its early democratic spirit from admitting the hereditary principle; but the absence of this arrangement for securing the succession, together with the complete lack of any really democratic arrangement, often threw it into a chaotic confusion when a ruler died, and made its internal history a thrilling succession of romances and tragedies, with an occasional page of comedy. In this case it is comedy.

Anastasius, after playing his successive parts as peasant, lay preacher

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THE AGE OF JUSTINIAN AND THEODORA
A HISTORY OF THE SIXTH CENTURY A.D.

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Obvious printer errors have been corrected. Hyphenation has been rationalised.

The Corrigenda at the end include references to Volume I as well as to this volume.

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BY
WILLIAM GORDON HOLMES

VOL. II
SECOND EDITION

LONDON
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1912

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CONTENTS

Chap.	PAGE
V.	The Persians and Justinian's First War with them	365
VI.	The Schools of Philosophy at Athens and their Abolition by Justinian	420
VII.	The Internal Administration of the Empire: Insurrection of the Circus Factions in the Capital	440
VIII.	Carthage under the Romans: Recovery of Africa from the Vandals	489
IX.	The Building of St. Sophia: The Architectural Work of Justinian	529
X.	Rome in the Sixth Century: War with the Goths in Italy	544
XI.	The Second Persian War: Fall of Antioch: Military Operations in Lazica	584
XII.	Private Life in the Imperial Circle and its Dependencies	605
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