Theodora's Past Life
- As a child, she became a common actress of low comedies because of her mother's advice after her father's death.
- She was intelligent and strong - willed.
- Began her life as lower class of the Byzantine community and then rose to the higher class by winning Justinian's love.
- Her other job besides acting was wool spinning.
- Accused of scandals and poor girls for homes.
- Her father, Acacius, worked as a bear keeper at the Hippodrome.
- Procopius quoted her, "She was extremely clever and had a biting wit."
- Her mother was a dancer and an actress.
- She became a very popular actress but was also vile to what she did in the show business and acted inappropriate.
- Theodora was the middle child of her two sister, Comitona and Anastasia.
- When she was 16, she traveled with one of her lovers named Hecebolus while he became governor.