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Fictitious characters are indicated with an asterisk (see Author’s Note)

Aetios, physician

Alicia, soothsayer (real person, invented name)

Amalasuintha, regent of the Goths in Italy

Anastasia (Stasie), Theodora’s younger sister, former animal keeper

Anastasius, grandson to Theodora, born to Juliana and Zeno

Anna, daughter to Chrysomallo (real person, invented name)

Anthemius, mathematician and physicist, designs new Hagia Sofia

with Isidorus

Antonina, former actress and friend of Theodora, wife to Belisarius

Areobindus, steward to Theodora

Areobindus, military commander and patrician

Artabanes, military commander, changes sides to serve Justinian

Belisarius, general and Commander in Chief of the Byzantine army

Bouzes, Byzantine general

Cappadocian John, Praetorian Prefect of the East, tax-collecter

Chrysomallo, former acrobat and dancer, friend to Theodora

*Claudia, lady-in-waiting to Theodora

Comito, Theodora’s elder sister, former actress and courtesan,

wife to General Sittas

Eudaemon, Praetorian Prefect of Constantinople

Father Agapetus, Pope of Rome

Father Anthimus, Patriarch of Constantinople after Epiphanius,

deposed

Father Epiphanius, Patriarch of Constantinople

Father Gaianus, becomes Patriarch of Alexandria, deposed

Father Maximianus, Bishop of Ravenna

Father Menas, Patriarch of Constantinople who replaces Anthimus

Father Severus, deposed Patriarch of Antioch sheltering in Alexandria

Father Silverius, Pope of Rome after Agapetus, deposed

Father Vigilius, Pope of Rome who replaces Silverius

Father Theodosius, Patriarch of Alexandria after Gaianus

Gelimer, leader of the Goths in Africa

Germanus, cousin to Justinian, becomes Magister Militum in Africa

Guntarith, rebel leader in Africa

Ildibad, king of the Ostrogoths after Witigis

Ildiger, Byzantine general

Indaro, former acrobat and dancer, friend to Theodora

Isidorus, university professor of science, designs new Hagia Sofia

with Anthemius

Jacob Baradaeus, holy man, “old Ragbag”

John, impostor claiming to be Theodora’s son

(real person, invented name)

John Sanguinaris, or Bloody John, Byzantine general

Juliana, Theodora’s daughter by Hecebolus

(real person, invented name, father not identified)

Justin, nephew to Justinian

Justinian, Emperor of Byzantium

Khosrau, King of Persia

Macedonia, slave

Maximinus, civilian commander of the military

*Marcus Anicius Longinus, senator, protecter of Comito

Matasuintha, daughter of Amalasuintha

Mundus, general in Byzantine army

Nabedes, general in Persian Army

Narses, a eunuch, Commander of the Imperial Guard,

becomes Chief Chamberlain and military general

Praejecta, niece to Justinian, widow of Areobindus

Pharas, general in Byzantine army

Photius, eldest son to Antonina

Procopius, secretary and legal adviser to Belisarius, historian

Quintus Julius Libo, aged patrician (real person, invented name)

Sergius, a military commander

Sheikh Harith ibn Jabala, king of a Christian Arab state,

a Monophysite

Sittas, general in Byzantine army, husband to Comito

Solomon, eunuch, military leader in Carthage

Sophia, daughter born to Comito and General Sittas

Theodahad, king of the Ostrogoths who deposes Amalasuintha

Theodora, former actress and courtesan, Empress of Byzantium

Theodosius, mapmaker, adopted godson to Belisarius and

Antonina (believed by historians to have been her lover)

Tribonian, legal expert

Witigis, king of the Ostrogoths after Theodahad

Zeno, son of Probus, marries Juliana (real person, invented name)

Z’ura, stylite, holy man

Sundry other persons such a chief usher, silentiaries, guards

(excubitors, scholarians & domestics), servants, slaves, soldiers,

priests, washerwomen, dancing girls, artists, etc