138 Theodora II Purple Born

Roman Emperors: Totalus Rankium

Rob and Jamie

History, Comedy

4.9 • 742 Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2020

⏱️ 64 minutes

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We have covered her uncle, her father, her sister and three of her brother-in-laws, so now it it time to get Theodora's side of the story. She is the least known about of all of them so we do what we can to unravel her life story!

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0:00.0	Welcome to Totalis Rankium. This week, Theodora 2. Hello and welcome to Roman emperors, this House of Rankingum.
0:27.1	I am Jamie.
0:28.2	And I'm Rob ranking all of the emperors from Augustus to Constantine 11, and this is episode 138.
0:35.7	It's Theodora 2.
0:37.3	Yeah, it is. There was a first one. I remember that.
0:41.1	Well, I didn't remember that. Because two comes after one, so I assumed it.
0:44.9	It's funny you say this, because the first thing I need to discuss is about how unusual it is that it's Theodora 2.
0:51.0	Yes.
0:52.1	Which is, I'm sure, what you're referring to, yeah?
0:54.2	Exactly, yes. That was my point.
0:56.1	So thank you for the segue there, Jamie.
0:57.8	No problem.
0:58.6	That was good.
0:59.7	Theodora 2, the Purple Born, if you want to give her her nickname.
1:03.7	She's, I've never seen her listed as Theodora 2.
1:06.3	I've only ever seen her listed as Theodora, Purplebourne, or sometimes Theodora 3. Yeah, again,
1:14.1	this is a case of Wikipedia changing relatively recently. Someone's doing stuff on Wikipedia
1:19.9	with some dates and names and I can't say I'm agreeing with it because Theodora 3 does not
1:25.3	work for us at all. No.
1:30.5	Well, in fact, Theodora on its own doesn't work for us, obviously,
1:33.5	because she's not the first Theodora to rule the empire.
1:34.8	We've already had a Theodora.
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