In sixth-century Constantinople, one woman, Theodora, defied every convention and all the odds and rose from a common theater tart to empress of a great kingdom, the most powerful woman the Roman Empire would ever know. The woman whose image was later immortalized in glittering mosaic was a scrappy, clever, conniving, flesh-and-blood female full of sensuality and spirit whose real story is as surprising as any ever told...
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