The Turbulent Life of Byzantine Empress Theodora

The Turbulent Life of Byzantine Empress Theodora

Mosaic of Byzantine Empress Theodora in the Basilica di San Vitale, in Ravenna, Italy Credit: Petar Milosevic/Wikimedia Commons/ CC BY-SA 4.0 In Constantinople, circa 500 AD, a girl was born to a poor circus worker and his wife. That child, Theodora, would become an actress, a prostitute, a mistress, a  feminist, an empress of the civilized world, and eventually, a saint. Her colorful life, in some ways not unlike that of Eva (“Evita”) Peron of …