The story of the peasant's son who became an emperor and the dissolute actress who resided beside him on the throne is one of the greatest and most controversia
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 facin
An Italian historian’s prize-winning biography of the sixth-century Byzantine empress. Theodora of Byzantium rose from humble beginnings to become one of the