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The Byzantine Empress Who Ordered Her Son's Eyes Burned Out

Empress Irene ordered her own son's eyes burned out and ruled alone as "Emperor of the Romans." Theophano lowered ropes from her window at midnight to let assassins into her husband's bedroom. Zoe ran a perfume laboratory that Byzantine historians carefully refused to call a poison laboratory. Three empresses. Three centuries. One system with specific tools for the specific problem of what to do with a woman who held too much power. Based on primary Byzantine sources including Michael Psellos's Chronographia and Leo the Deacon's Historia — documents that preserved the evidence while declining to draw the conclusions.