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Theodora: Actress, Empress, Saint - Women in Antiquity Condition:Well Read Roughead brings to life someTwo 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