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  Holy men who often spent years living atop columns. Also known as pillar saints, from stylos, pillar.

  TESSERAE (Singular: tessera)

  Small cubes of stone or glass used in the creation of mosaics.

  THANATOS

  Personification of death in Greek mythology.

  THEODORA (c 497–548)

  Influential and powerful wife of JUSTINIAN I. It has been alleged she had formerly been an actress and a prostitute. When the Nika riots broke out in Constantinople in 532, she is said to have urged her husband to remain in the city, thus saving his throne.

  THOUGH THOU DIDST DESCEND INTO THE TOMB

  See ROMANOS MELODOS.

  ZEUS APOMYIOS

  According to Greek mythology, Hercules was tormented by flies while performing a religious rite. He therefore sacrificed to Zeus Apomyios (loosely, averter of, or protector from, flies) and the swarm immediately departed.

  ZEUXIPPOS

  Thracian deity whose name combined Zeus and Hippos (horse).

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