Stella Duffy

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

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He was being quite draconian with some of his rules.

But she's not prepared to give up or let him give up.

Once she's got a taste, see, I think that perhaps once she's got a taste of power, then she does become problematic.

Her journey to getting power, that's not the problem.

Not that I know of either, but then I'm not a historian and you are.

I mean, I think it makes sense if you think about the overall political situation.

So she's from there.

I mean, I suspect just because of the nastiness about her.

I suspect that her family were probably from North Africa, which Rome had taken most of.

So my guess is she's brown, or at least she's not white-white.

And therefore, you get some of the racism about her, which I think really shows up in Procopius.

They talk about her as dark.

They talk about her as swarthy.

I mean, they're just horrendous.

So she's other, she's outside, she's from poverty, she's one of the people.

And Justinian needed that.

You know, the Roman Empire is on its last legs.

They have had enough of these blokes coming over from Europe and trying to run everything in Constantinople.

As the next lot of mistakes is going to fight with Persia, and that doesn't work.

It's actually really strategic.

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