Zoë & Theodora, Byzantine Empresses

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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History, Society & Culture

4.2 • 23.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Over almost 30 years in 11th-century Constantinople, sometimes Zoë ruled alongside one of her husbands, sometimes she and Theodora ruled together, and in the end, Theodora ruled alone. All against a backdrop of distrust and intrigue and possibly murder.

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0:30.7	Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History class,
0:34.5	a production of I Heart Radio.
0:36.5	Hello and welcome to the podcast.
0:44.6	I'm Tracy B. Wilson, and I'm Holly Fry.
0:47.4	So our show has been skewing a little bit more
0:50.3	for the 19th and 20th centuries lately,
0:53.5	including something we just recorded that's coming out after this one.
0:56.8	So when I picked today's topic,
0:59.4	I wanted to just break a little farther out of that.
1:03.3	And I have had Byzantine Emperors' Zoe and Theodora on my list for ages.
1:09.8	They went through a whole series of twists and turns
1:13.4	in 11th century Constantinople.
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