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Antonina's mother, whose name is also unmentioned, was an actress. Procopius mentions her in contemptuous terms: "Her mother was one of the prostitutes attached to the theatre." The term used for "theatre" in the primary source is "thymele" ( Greek : θυμέλη ), equivalent to the term orchestra ( Greek : ὀρχήστρα ).
Antonina (wife of Belisarius) C. Comito; T. Theodora (wife of Justinian I) This page was last edited on 18 October 2019, at 12:40 (UTC). Text is available under the ...
[18] [19] Employment as an actress at the time would have included performing "indecent exhibitions" on stage and providing sexual services off stage. During this time, she may have met Antonina, the future wife of Belisarius who also became a part of the women's court led by Theodora.
Rita Jolivet. Rita Jolivet as Teodora Augusta; Ferruccio Biancini as Justinian; René Maupré as Andreas; Emilia Rosini as Antonina; Adolfo Trouché as Belisarius; Mariano Bottino as Marcellus
Antonina Miliukova (1848–1917), wife of Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky; Antonina Nezhdanova (1873–1950), Russian opera singer; Antonina Prusinowska (fl. 1767), Polish stage actress; Antonina Shuranova (1936–2003), Russian actress; Antonina Szumowska, birthname of Antoinette Szumowska (1868–1938), Polish pianist
In Herman Melville's Mardi (Chapters 25, 26, 28), Samoa's wife Annatoo is described as a Termagant, and metaphorically referred to as Antonina (wife of Belisarius) to Samoa's Belisarius. Explaining why she did not need the armaments on the ship, Melville writes "Her voice was a park of artillery; her talons a charge of bayonets." (Chapter 23.)
Antonina, a genus of mealybugs; Antonina (name) Antonina (wife of Belisarius) (c. 495–after 565), Byzantine patrikia and wife of the general Belisarius; Antonina (Tur novel), by Evgenia Tur; Antonina (Collins novel), an 1850 novel by Wilkie Collins; Antonina Nutshell, Swedish drag queen who competed in Drag Race Sverige
Map of the Byzantine-Persian frontier. Belisarius was born around the year 500, probably in Germania, [6] a fortified town of which some archaeological remains still exist, on the site of present-day Sapareva Banya in south-west Bulgaria, within the borders of Thrace and Paeonia, or in Germen, a town in Thrace near Orestiada, in present-day Greece. [7]