>>2911480

For most of history "actress" and "prostitute" and "whore" were considered basically synonymous. Only with the advent of motion picture did this change.

"""roman""""

Prokopius talked serious shit about everyone around him though. Called Belisarius a cuckold and thought Justinian was incompetent.

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>>2911480
Imagine the sex

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"""""""""""saint""""""""""

>>2911848
>>2911848
It's quite likely belisarius was a cuckold

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J-Justinian can I have my wife back?

>>2911996
You can really tell this shit was made up by a eunuch who had no experience with actual sex.

>>2911840
Motion pictures did little to change this. Women's liberation did most of the heavy lifting.
Even now, women sometimes have to sexually debase themselves to get a job in film, theater, opera, or dance. It still happens despite laws against it.

>>2912005
But his wife wasn't an asshole like JUSTinians

>>2911840
serious: any source on this?

>>2911840
That should really be brought back desu.

>>2912133
"Highbrow Lowbrow: The Emergence of Cultural Hierarchy in America" by Lawrence W. Levine touches on the subject.

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>never cheated on her man
>kept the state running when Justinian was ill
>came from nothing made it to the top

bredy gud actually

>>2912027
so, it's like an ancient 4chins green text?

>>2912164
>Constantly tried to poison Justinian's relationship with Belisarius, undermining his authority and needlessly extending the Gothic Wars as a result.
Could have been better.

>>2912202
'fraid so.
Same can be said of the sexual exploits of Catherine the Great. Mostly greentext exaggerations meant to demean her. She had concubines, but nothing like the horse fucking later attributed to her.

>>2912504
>'fraid so.

I'm not trying to get at you here but could you do me a favour and tell me honestly whether you came here from reddit

asking for a friend

>>2911848
Procopius claimed Justinian was literally a demon. His claims about Theodora are the same old stuff Romans like to tell about women they don't like. I mean, Theodora was an actress and, therefore, possibly a prostitute but that's about it. Other unfavorable accounts of her are probably because of her shilling for monophysites.

>>2912010
>stirrups