The Empresses of Constantinople
Author(s): Joseph Martin Mccabe
Genre(s): Biography & Autobiography, History
Narrators: Rita Boutros, Availle, Nancy Midlin, Jazzgirl, Lisa Villado, MajorHistory, Meg Huskin, Linda Johnson, Everae, Mlee06
Number of Chapters: 31
Length: 13 hours and 15 minutes
Language: English
In concluding an earlier volume on the mistresses of the western Roman Empire I observed that, as the gallery of fair and frail ladies closed, we stood at the door of “the long, quaint gallery of the Byzantine Empresses.” It seemed natural and desirable to pass on to this more interesting and less familiar series of the mistresses of the eastern Roman Empire, and the present volume will therefore tell the story of the Empresses, or Queens, as they preferred to be called, who occupied the throne set up by Constantine in New Rome, or ancient Byzantium. (Summary taken from the author's introduction)