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Queen Elizabeth I, 110, 115
Reparatus, brother of Vigilius, 93, 99
Rhodon, Augustal prefect of Egypt, 89
Saint Melania the Younger, 116
Saint Thekla, follower of apostle Paul,
73
Saint Theodore of Sykeon, 17, 19
Sarkis (= Sergius), 95; consecrated Mo-
nophysite patriarch of Antioch, 96
Saturninus, 38
Septimius Severus; his wife, Julia
Domna; her sister, Julia Maesa;
Maesa’ daughter, Julia Mamaae, 114
Severus, Monophysite patriarch of An-
tioch, 6, 8–10, 67–69, 71, 73, 77–82,
84–86, 94, 100
Severus Alexander, 114
Severus of Ashmounein, 17, 83
Silko, king of the Nobadae, 62
Silverius, pope, 51, 90–92
Silverius, pope, son of pope Hormisdas,
77
Sittas, Comito’s husband, 20, 117
Solomon, commander in Africa, 49
Stephen, papal nuncio in Constanti-
nople, 101
Stephen bar Sudaili, 98
Synesius of Cyrene, 115
Theocritus, Amantius’ aspirant for the
throne, 4
Theodahad, Ostrogothic king, xiv, 63–
66, 81–82, 90; his queen, Gudeliva,
xiv, 65
Theodora: both Justinian’s collabora-
tor and his opponent, xi, 68, 74–75,
107; her early life, xiii, 13–19; attacks
prostitution, 30–32; helps wronged
women, 32–34; arranges marriages,
33, 38; dislikes Germanus, 33, 49–50;
builds the Holy Apostles church, 35–
36; improves status of actresses, 36–37;
women’s rights vindicated, 37–38; her
ruthlessness, 47–49, 52, 63; possible
complicity in Amalasuintha’s murder,
63–65; patron of Monophysites, 87–
88, 95; impales Arsenius, 90; replaces
pope Silverius with Vigilius, 90–92;
death of, 103–105; her assessment of
theological battlefront, 107–108; ver-
dict on Theodora, 107–112. See also
Monophysites, Nika revolt, Three
Chapters
Theodore, metropolitan of Bostra, 95
Theodore Askidas, Origenist monk,
98–101
Theodore ‘‘Colocynthius,’’ urban prefect
under Justin I, 11
Theodore of Mopsuestia, 100–101, 103,
107
Theodoret of Cyrrhus, 76, 100–101, 103,
107
Theodoric, Ostrogothic king, xiv, 2, 50,
63, 106; his daughter, Amalasuin-
tha, xiv, 63–66; his granddaughter,
Matasuintha, 50, 106
Theodosius, Antonina’s lover, 52–54
Theodosius, Monophysite patriarch of
Alexandria, 61, 63, 83–84, 87–88
Theodosius I, 114
Theodosius II, emperor, ix, 20, 31, 114–
115
Theophanes the Confessor, Chronicle of,
xiv
Three Chapters dispute, 99–103, 105–107
Thucydides, ix
Tiberius II, 117; his wife, Ino (Anasta-
sia), 117
Timothy III, patriarch of Alexandria, 9,
17, 78–79, 83
Titus, son of Vespasian, emperor, 113; his
mistress, Berenice, 113
Tribonian, 43
Valens, emperor, 114; his wife, Domnica
Augusta, 114
Valentinian III, emperor, xi
Valentinus, 101
Verina, dowager empress, 27
Victor, bishop of Tonnena, xiv, 103
Vigilius, pope, 77, 90–93, 99–103, 106–
107