Stella Duffy
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 5 Jun
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women are bad and wrong and they certainly shouldn't have a sexuality.
And so they fall in love.
I think they fall in love.
And the reason I think they fall in love is that he was alive for 20 years after she died.
She was probably only in her late 40s when she died because we don't know her exact birth date, so we don't know exactly when.
So mid to late 40s.
And he didn't marry again.
They didn't have children.
He could, he probably should have married again so that he would have had an heir and he didn't.
And at least for the first 10 years, he is reported as going to visit her grave every single week.
And then if you go to Istanbul today and you go to see the Hagia Sophia, which is now a mosque, having been a museum and having been a church before,
That was built for her.
So there was a major rebellion in 532.
It's called the Nika Rebellion.
And the big factions, the green and blue factions, fighting against each other.
And the old Hagia Sophia church was burnt down.
And he built, he had this built, Justinian had this built as an emotional gift to her.
It was partly to rebuild the state and to go, we're coming back.
But it was also partly, in my opinion, as a thank you to her because in the rebellion, there was a lot of machinations and there was a lot of suggestion from Justinian's own men that he should leave, that they should get in a boat, they should cross the Bosphorus, they should go over to the Asian side of Constantinople and get away because the people didn't want him in power anymore.
Okay.
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