The story of the dancer becomes the queen

Although born from the lower class but with her talent, Queen Theodora became one of the powerful people in ancient Rome.

From the dancer to becoming the queen of a great empire, it seems that only stories that appear to have appeared on movies are completely real in history. It is the story of Theodora's life - a woman from the bottom of society but has great strides to become an extremely powerful person in Roman society .

From dancer to queen .

Born in Syria in 500, Theodora was a poor man in society. Her father - Acacius, is a horse jockey in the city of Constantinople. Her mother is a happy dancer in pubs. After the death of his parents, Theodora sold himself into a brothel to have money to live through.

She had a poor position when she used to be a dancer for a living

At the age of 16, she went to North Africa with the protection of General Hecebolus. She stayed with him for nearly four years before being sent back to Constantinople by Hecebolus. Later, Theodora wandered around and used his body to earn a living. But the hard life of her dancer changed completely when she met Justinian - a character who is holding great power in the court.

At that time, the Emperor Anastase of the Byzantine Empire had just died. In the court, there appeared a bloody battle of the king, one side of the courtiers supporting Prince Hypatios, one side who supported the commander of Justin musketeers.

In it, Justin was just a doting old man, but fortunately he had the help of his nephew, Justinian. By his intelligence and many tricks, Justinian cleverly mobilized many courtiers to imprison Prince Hypatios and put Justin as king in 518. Therefore, after he became king, Justin immediately assigned all authority to his grandson's hand.

But thanks to King Justinian's favor, she was made Queen of Rome

Because of Theodora's beauty, Justinian ordered a house to be built right next to the palace. On the outside, this is just a tailor shop of a gentle, lovely girl, but whoever doubts, this is the resting place of the most powerful Roman man then - Justinian. He deeply loved Theodora and though he had a beautiful wife and a wise child, Justinian still wanted to find ways to marry a dancer to be his wife.

By his influence, Justinian forced Justin to abolish the law of 'dancers not to marry gods'. Soon after, a festive marriage was held and Theodora quickly became a rich and powerful woman.

Not only at the wife of the god, Theodora was even more fortunate to become the queen of the Roman Empire. Four years later, on April 1, 2727, Emperor Justin abdicated, Justinian became the new king of Rome and Theodora evidently became the queen of the great empire. For the first and only time in human history, a dancer stepped onto the throne.

Brave woman .

The authority of Theodora caused many people in society to be dissatisfied, they argued that it was ridiculous to let a dancer do the " misfortune". Therefore, some courtiers have teamed up to create a coup called Nika.

The people also responded to the struggle that began with arson, looting and disturbance throughout the capital. The rebellion spread to the suburbs, the threat of growing every day that King Justinian began to fear .

Oil painting painted by Queen Theodora at Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant's Colosseum

In this situation, Justinien decided to leave the capital, bringing all the gold and silver to escape. This came to Theodora, she was furious and told Justinian: 'It would be better to die as an emperor fighting to keep his throne than to flee in fear and live like an exile.'

This made King Justinian extremely embarrassed, he was determined to stay in the capital to fight the rebels.

Theodora is a talented and extremely brave queen

Theodora personally came to deal with the rebels. On the one hand, she used the money to buy cockroaches, on the other hand controlled the attacking soldiers to destroy those who played a major role in the uprising.

In the end, she devised a malicious conspiracy to defeat this army. She ordered the insider to drag the rebels to protest at a square. After about 30,000 people joined, Theodora ordered the gate to be closed.

The army slaughtered all who were inside, including the elderly, women, and children . The terrible killing never seen in the history of this empire caused the entire coup to break.

. and talent

After Nika's rebellion , Justinian and Theodora built and reformed Constantinople, making the city incredibly gorgeous for centuries. Especially Justinian and Theodora rebuilt water gates, bridges, built more than 25 churches . this has attracted countless people to live.

Theodora made many important contributions to women's liberation

The largest of these is Hagia Sophia - one of the world's architectural wonders. The couple carefully supervised judges, to reduce bureaucratic corruption.

King Justinian, thanks to Theodora's help, became one of the great kings of Rome

More specifically, Theodora also participates in legal reforms in increasing women's rights. She passed laws prohibiting forced prostitution in closed brothels or granting women the right to divorce and property rights, establishing a death sentence for rape, banning the murder of adulterous wives . Many monasteries were opened to support paid prostitutes.

However, this "very talented, many- woman " woman goes away painfully. She had an ulcer on her chest that gradually formed a giant tumor. The entire body of the queen became sore and eventually, Theodora died on June 28, 548 at the age of 48.