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Is empress Theodora the greatest rags to riches story in known history?

From bestiality and child sex slavery to empress of Rome. Al...
spectacular crawly cuckold striped hyena
  08/31/25
She’s represented well in the book Belisarius
Talking glassy public bath
  08/31/25
He did the massacre.
spectacular crawly cuckold striped hyena
  08/31/25
That's supposed to be a cautionary tale
Flatulent Insane Casino Knife
  08/31/25
how so?
spectacular crawly cuckold striped hyena
  08/31/25
There is scarcely a post-Julio-Claudian roman example of a G...
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  08/31/25
Not really seeing that in any of the common sources. Justini...
spectacular crawly cuckold striped hyena
  08/31/25
iirc Neither of the two major historical accounts of his rei...
Flatulent Insane Casino Knife
  08/31/25
There was a big plague that fucked shit up, but it got scant...
Umber box office
  08/31/25
they co-ruled. Not sure virtue is a top priority for a leade...
spectacular crawly cuckold striped hyena
  08/31/25
please report to the reprocessing vats at once
Flatulent Insane Casino Knife
  08/31/25
It's like that in every society that found itself ruled by p...
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  08/31/25
Why didn't her family bump her off while she was "reign...
Flatulent Insane Casino Knife
  08/31/25
They may have. All governments at all times have been extrem...
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  08/31/25
*taps table*
Flatulent Insane Casino Knife
  08/31/25
Should I read Procopius? Consuela didn't.
Umber box office
  08/31/25
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you're the puppet
  10/27/26
Justin was much more impressive, she was just an upjumped wh...
hank_scorpio
  10/27/26
Guy Gavriel Kay’s the Sarantine Mosaic is the best por...
titus chicken
  10/27/26


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Date: August 31st, 2025 5:39 PM
Author: spectacular crawly cuckold striped hyena

From bestiality and child sex slavery to empress of Rome. Also had a kid before she married the roman emperor. Apparently, we really can all make it.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5768231&forum_id=2#49226887)



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Date: August 31st, 2025 5:39 PM
Author: Talking glassy public bath

She’s represented well in the book Belisarius

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5768231&forum_id=2#49226890)



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Date: August 31st, 2025 5:43 PM
Author: spectacular crawly cuckold striped hyena

He did the massacre.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5768231&forum_id=2#49226895)



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Date: August 31st, 2025 5:41 PM
Author: Flatulent Insane Casino Knife

That's supposed to be a cautionary tale

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5768231&forum_id=2#49226892)



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Date: August 31st, 2025 5:43 PM
Author: spectacular crawly cuckold striped hyena

how so?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5768231&forum_id=2#49226896)



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Date: August 31st, 2025 5:45 PM
Author: Flatulent Insane Casino Knife

There is scarcely a post-Julio-Claudian roman example of a Great Queen who doesn't mirror the Great Whore, drunk on martyr blood and dripping crimson in tooth and claw

The Classical examples of women of power and influence are incredibly dismal and (this direction, draped in decadence and the furs of sexually purchased violence) probably had a lot to do with how oppressive and warlike those societies were. iirc they even named an evolutionary theory after Theodora-likes

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5768231&forum_id=2#49226900)



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Date: August 31st, 2025 5:54 PM
Author: spectacular crawly cuckold striped hyena

Not really seeing that in any of the common sources. Justinian's rule was considered relatively successful, and better when she was alive than after her death.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5768231&forum_id=2#49226926)



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Date: August 31st, 2025 6:00 PM
Author: Flatulent Insane Casino Knife

iirc Neither of the two major historical accounts of his reign have much positive to say about her in the virtue department. Justinian's reign was generally "good" and saw success due to earlier political and military reorganizations, acceptance of political realities, and fractiousness amongst the principal barbarian kingdoms of Italy

Bug insect pussy pheromone society is also against the spirit of the West ime

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5768231&forum_id=2#49226951)



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Date: August 31st, 2025 6:03 PM
Author: Umber box office

There was a big plague that fucked shit up, but it got scant attention in the contemporary literature. More recent research has connected plagues/pandemics to all kinds of political disarray, all of it written pre-COVID

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5768231&forum_id=2#49226958)



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Date: August 31st, 2025 9:43 PM
Author: spectacular crawly cuckold striped hyena

they co-ruled. Not sure virtue is a top priority for a leader.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5768231&forum_id=2#49227356)



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Date: August 31st, 2025 9:47 PM
Author: Flatulent Insane Casino Knife

please report to the reprocessing vats at once

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5768231&forum_id=2#49227366)



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Date: August 31st, 2025 5:58 PM
Author: Umber box office

It's like that in every society that found itself ruled by powerful womyn for a time. Egypt had a bitch pharaoh at one point, and people hated her so much her own family chipped her name off old stone inscriptions and tried to erase all mention of her.

"Hatshepsut is, according to Egyptologist James Henry Breasted, "the first great woman in history of whom we are informed."[85] In some ways, Hatshepsut's reign was seen as going against the patriarchal system of her time. She managed to rule as regent for a son who was not her own, going against the system which had previously only allowed mothers to rule on behalf of their biological sons. She used this regency to create her female kingship, constructing extensive temples to celebrate her reign, which meant that the public became used to seeing a woman in such a powerful role. This ensured that when the oracle declared her king, the Egyptian public readily accepted her status.[86][page needed]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatshepsut

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5768231&forum_id=2#49226946)



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Date: August 31st, 2025 6:02 PM
Author: Flatulent Insane Casino Knife

Why didn't her family bump her off while she was "reigning" then

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5768231&forum_id=2#49226956)



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Date: August 31st, 2025 6:05 PM
Author: Umber box office

They may have. All governments at all times have been extremely shitty record keepers in this regard. There's nothing exceptional about Roman history, really. They sucked as bad as anyone when it came to documenting their own internal affairs.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5768231&forum_id=2#49226963)



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Date: August 31st, 2025 9:47 PM
Author: Flatulent Insane Casino Knife

*taps table*

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5768231&forum_id=2#49227367)



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Date: August 31st, 2025 5:42 PM
Author: Umber box office

Should I read Procopius? Consuela didn't.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5768231&forum_id=2#49226894)



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Date: October 27th, 2026 9:26 PM
Author: you're the puppet (I have the emotional height of an angry 6" gnome )



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5768231&forum_id=2#50208001)



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Date: October 27th, 2026 10:16 PM
Author: hank_scorpio

Justin was much more impressive, she was just an upjumped whore but he enlisted as a nobody and became emperor and managed to hand off power to his nephew and damn near retake the west

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5768231&forum_id=2#50208292)



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Date: October 27th, 2026 10:34 PM
Author: titus chicken

Guy Gavriel Kay’s the Sarantine Mosaic is the best portrayal of her I’ve read and how I like to think of her.

They should make a movie out of the Nika Riots.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5768231&forum_id=2#50208335)