# The Secret History

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- Book: [The Secret History](https://www.bookquiver.com/stephanie-thornton/the-secret-history) ([The Secret History.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/stephanie-thornton/the-secret-history.md))
- Authors: [Stephanie Thornton](https://www.bookquiver.com/stephanie-thornton)
- Publisher: Berkley
- ISBN: 978-04-5141-778-7
- Pages: 448
- Published: 2013-07-02
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Where Theodora went, trouble followed…. In sixth-century Constantinople, one woman, Theodora, defied every convention and all the odds and rose from common theater tart to empress of a great...