Author: Helen A. Mahler
Publisher: Bantam A1157 Year: 1953 Print: 1 Cover Price: $0.35
Condition: Very Good
Genre: Fiction/GGA

Pages: 452

In the last days of the Roman Empire, Christianity challenged a world rotten with depravity and weak from incessant war. Out of the splendor and squalor of those turbulent days comes the story of Athenais, a beautiful pagan who rose to be Empress of Byzantium, the envied bride of the young Emperor Theodosius II.The young Queen was a virtual prisoner amidst the barbaric splendor of the royal palace, enslaved by her husband's possessive lust. When she sought escape in the love of the handsome Lord Chamberlain, Paulinus, she unleashed the demoniacal fury of the Emperor, who plunged the Empire into an orgy of violence and destruction.