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I recently watched a documentary that claimed there was a law in the Byzantine Empire that forbade government officials from marrying actresses and that this law was repealed so that Emperor Justinian could marry Theodora. Why would there be a law like this in the first place?

by /u/TueuEnSerie in /r/AskHistorians

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