Stella Duffy

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463 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 5 Jun

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Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society · Supersluts of History: Roman Empress Theodora · 5 Jun 2026 podcast

So rather than run away, this woman who had been through such a lot, she definitely was born into, if not terrible poverty, when her father died when she was five, that will have thrown them into extreme poverty.

Women had no way to earn poverty.

I mean, women didn't have any way to earn until 1950, really, but they really had no way to earn.

And so this woman who made her way through a lot of adversity is not going to give up the purple of the throne.

And she says to him, purple makes a great burial shard.

Let them come.

We're going to stand.

We're going to make a stand.

Yeah.

And they did.

And Belisarius, the general who Robert Graves wrote about in the book called Belisarius, goes out and kills possibly 30,000 people in one fevered rebellion battle on the Hippodrome in what is now Istanbul.

And you can go there.

You can go to the Hippodrome.

You can see where it was.

And what you need to know is that way beneath that, there's the blood of all of these people who were killed.

So they stayed and they fought.

Yeah.

And she's not necessarily the goody in this.

You know, Justinian was bringing in big taxes.

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