Author: | Harold Lamb | ISBN: | 9788834151259 |
Publisher: | Reading Essentials | Publication: | July 4, 2019 |
Imprint: | Language: | English |
Author: | Harold Lamb |
ISBN: | 9788834151259 |
Publisher: | Reading Essentials |
Publication: | July 4, 2019 |
Imprint: | |
Language: | English |
Is it possible that a peasant and a circus girl could come to rule the Roman world? This is the strange tale of the harlot empress Theodora - the eerie beauty whose name stands in history beside Helen of Troy and Cleopatra. The daughter of a circus performer, a footloose vagabond and harlot, whose fierce ambition drove her from man to man until she finally married Justinian, a man of most humble origins who would become one of the greatest emperors of the ancient world!
Is it possible that a peasant and a circus girl could come to rule the Roman world? This is the strange tale of the harlot empress Theodora - the eerie beauty whose name stands in history beside Helen of Troy and Cleopatra. The daughter of a circus performer, a footloose vagabond and harlot, whose fierce ambition drove her from man to man until she finally married Justinian, a man of most humble origins who would become one of the greatest emperors of the ancient world!