The Byzantine Phoenix | Empress Theodora

[@johnmanole4779]

Criminally underrated!

[@cristianvillanueva8782]

Theodora is easily one of my favorites great women of history. Any person would be lucky to have a partner half has strong and bold as she was.

[@littlesleights]

The episode was partly for my sister, who is fascinated by Theodora and loves the story of her telling Justinian and his advisors to take a stand. She was an amazing woman!

[@Happyfsscist33]

Yes agreed her and Grace O'Malley 😂😂❤

[@msskeisha]

i just found out about her and im fascinated by her story, im so glad other people care or even knıw about her!

[@Art_sunflower_me]

Here in Serbia you may see in live in museum near Nis her sculpture original head.

[@nikolajovanovic9326]

@@Art_sunflower_me Ja ovo kao Nišlija nisam znao, hvala! Interesantna informacija!

[@junesilvermanb2979]

SAINT Theodora of New Rome, please heal my heart and soul...

[@Rotisiv]

Dead saints will not hear your supplications. Only God will.

[@junesilvermanb2979]

@@Rotisiv The SAINTS are ALIVE in CHRIST... They are conscious. They have the ability to hear our prayers. They have the ability to pray for us. ❤️

[@maximumdoomer]

one of the most fascinating people I've ever known about in my life

[@Art_sunflower_me]

Here in Serbia you may see in live in museum near Nis her sculpture original head

[@EveofPyrite]

What does it look like?

[@DipanjanPaul]

Justinian(Iustinianus)was a Latin speaker from Thrace, son of a farmer. Theodora was a Greek speaker.

[@magnuscritikaleak5045]

Justiania is a Peasant's son?

[@ericponce8740]

Asia Minor, by the 3rd century at the latest, was a Hellenized province.

[@ezzovonachalm9815]

Dipanjan Paul Don't confuse emperess haghia Theodora with Theodora the wife of emperor Justinian ! Nor with emperess Theodora,daughter of Constantine VIII, the last fleuron of the amorian dynasty + 1156.

[@cindchan]

Well done! One of my favorites! Thanks for sharing this video!

[@ericlefevre7741]

She is also recognized as a saint of The Church both in the Eastern Orthodox (chalcedonian) and Oriental Orthodox. Her feast day is either November 14th (eastern) or June 28th (oriental).

[@househistorian]

A brilliant piece of research on one of history's most fascinating women. Brava! I am a huge ancient history fan and late in life have had the good fortune to move to Italy where I live in a small hill town in the Colli Sabini an hour north of Rome. I remember well the sense of awe I felt when I first saw the splendid mosaics of Theodora and Justinian in the Basilica of San Vitale in Ravenna. This is my first of your videos and I look forward to watching many more.

[@charlesgervin714]

A beautiful poem.

[@uhoh007]

Well Done!

[@la_princesse_des_beauxarts]

Your channel is AMAZING!!

[@thalita_milan]

Amazing video! I was trying to learn more about her just now but found out that the literature about her is really limited :(

[@timothymeinhardt2536]

A lot of more modern historians don't like the narrative that under her and after her Byzantium became one of the first nations in the world to have fully enshrined full women's rights into law and used her Christian faith to do this. This doesn't fit the modern narrative of absolutist religious patriarchy ruling until 100 years ago. Chroniclers at the time hated her for upsetting the social order so much and wrote a bunch of exaggerated negative stuff about her or refused to write about her because they were still bitter.

[@samanthasandefer4995]

Thank you for this excellent video! Theodora is an intriguing person! I really learned a great deal about her from this video and I loved that she was such a progressive about women's rights and helping the poor underclasses!

[@tao.of.history8366]

I just discovered your channel, love it. Vids are thorough but short, more balanced than others, while in this case especially showing how the info can be tainted by propaganda. ❤

[@taraann-ms1oi]

Thank you. ❤ She now lay at rest on the island of Corfu in Greece.

[@nillynush4899]

So Eastern Rome's first power couple? Interesting video

[@littlesleights]

If they weren't then they still definitely set the blueprint for those that came after!

[@GoogleUserOne]

That would be Augustus and Livia

[@pearldark6026]

Tearing up 😭where is her show or movie

[@ninelaivz4334]

Very nice video.!! Theodora didn't build Agia Sofia with muslim minarets.

[@ezzovonachalm9815]

We need a excellent portrait of emperess Hagia Theodora Mamikonian, the widow of emperor Theophilos, an iconoclast and mother of emperor Michael III. After the death of Theophilos she took over the regency (reign 842-855), changed the ikonoclast patriarch with an ikonophile one , a deed that determined the definitive end of the ikonoklast heresy during which innumerable antique , venerable statues, Icones and splendid mosaics were definitively lost.The church canonised she a saint. Her incorrupt body ist conserved in the most holy Theotokos church in Corfu.The catholic church venerates her memory on February 13.

[@Albemarle7]

Where is her big budget bio pic?

[@marybeasley8219]

Excellent presentation

[@GoogleUserOne]

@little sleights do Anna komnenos

[@judgedrew2076]

Who else is here because of Game of Thrones House of the Dragon Rhaenyra Targaryen byzantine connection?

[@Frater_Maven]

"Empress who controlled Byzantium*, not Emperor". The empire itself was called Byzantium. Anything that was of the empire, such as people and goods, are Byzantine. Don't forget the building projects that Procopius attributes to Theodora; the major extensions made to the dungeons beneath the royal palace. It is said that many people who had in one way or another slighted or offended Theodora and shortly afterwards seemed to disappear into thin air, were actually breathing their last in the darkness of her newly built dungeons on her orders. 😱🙀 Hate her or love her, label her Saint or Prostitute, supportive wife, or scheming potential usurper to her husbands throne . . . There's absolutely no denying that she rose from the humblest of beginnings to become the single most powerful woman in all of Byzantium, if not at that particular point in time, the whole world.

[@Saschakraft98]

My daughters patron saint

[@wankawanka3053]

Justinian's greek girlboss

[@yurisichgavin308]

Tacky little sweetheart

[@magnuscritikaleak5045]

Empress Theodora versus Empress Wu Zetian or in Japanese known as Tenkai Takae.

[@jdee4956]

Wu would eat her for breakfast.

[@mustafatekin7073]

That's amazing ❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@MegaMayday16]

The roman Phenix

[@smsm8282]

Consantine was born in Macedonia, not Serbia

[@inspirequotes1665]

Hahahahahh Google it

[@dimitriosvlissides5781]

You mean FYROM

[@СвпетарГајтан]

Константин је рођен у Нишу!(Naissus)

[@Ct.fle.french]

There was no such thing as "byzantine". It was always Roman Empire (today aka Eastern Roman Empire) and they called themselves Romans. These are facts.

[@timwashburn8553]

When I become the Emperor of North America, I hope I have as great a spouse as her. Yes, she would be co-ruler too. lol

[@triumphonyoutube3659]

does this mean the poor media has had tis rootsevenbefore this time ?

[@aattv77]

Theodora diindonesia Tidore apakah ada hubungan kerajaan id.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kesultanan_Tidore