The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire · Character
Verina
- Minor
- First seen · Book 1 · Ch. 170
A woman whose very presence radiates the unshakeable conviction that empire is her birthright, and whose spirit refuses to bend to any authority but her own.
- Gender
- female
- Age
- Adult
- First appears
- Book 1 · Ch. 170
- Books
- 1
Verina was the widow of Emperor Leo who claimed the Eastern Roman Empire as her own. She pronounced sentence of deposition against those she opposed, provoked bitter enmity, created a new emperor, and raised an army of seventy thousand men in fruitless rebellion.
Description
An Eastern Roman empress with dark hair and olive skin, wearing imperial Byzantine robes. She carries herself with haughty dignity and unyielding determination.
Story so far
BOOK 1The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire / Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes)
Appearances
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