Another account blames this woman for the assassination of Queen Amalasuntha in a bath.
This person bribed the Duke of the Thebaid to ensure that a party of missionaries would reach the court of King Silko before their rival envoys did. This person had 500 prostitutes rounded up and sent to a monastery called Repentance, a policy portrayed positively in a text called The Buildings. Another account blames this woman for the assassination of Queen Amalasuntha in a bath. This child of a bearkeeper allegedly said "royalty makes a good burial shroud" to convince a man not to (*) flee one event by boat, after which that man sent Mundus into a crowd. This woman had geese eat grains off her crotch as part of a routine described in a text which also depicts her and her husband as demons, The Secret History of Procopius. This ex-prostitute is credited with saving her husband's regime after the Blues and Greens factions started the Nika riots. For 10 points, name this Byzantine empress, the wife of Justinian the Great.
This person bribed the Duke of the Thebaid to ensure that a party of missionaries would reach the court of King Silko before their rival envoys did.
Empress Theodora 