LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Ancient Constantinople, showing the Hippodrome, the Imperial Palace, and the Mosque of St Sophia Frontispiece
From the reconstruction by Djelal Essad after the Plan by Labarte
From “Les Imperatrices Byzantines de Constantinople.” By permission of H. Laurens, Paris
FACING PAGE
The Empress Theodora and her Attendants 40
Mosaic of the sixth century in St Vitale, Ravenna
From a photograph by Alinari
The Empress Irene 88
From an Ivory Plaque in the National Museum, Florence
From a photograph by Alinari
Eudocia Ingerina, Wife of Basil I 116
From Du Cange’s “Historia Byzantina”
The Empress Helena 138
From Du Cange’s “Historia Byzantina”
The Empress Zoe 166
From “Constantinople,” by E. A. Grosvenor
By permission of Little, Brown & Co., Boston, U.S.A.
Eudocia and Romanus IV 186
From an Ivory in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris
From a photograph by A. Giraudon, Paris
Theodora, Wife of Michael VIII 268
From Du Cange’s “Historia Byzantina”