was given an unusual name, Theodosius, because he was born after his middle-aged parents prayed for a child to St. Theodosius of Chernigov. In 1910 the...
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evidence Theodosius I favored him. On occasion Theodosius I purposefully excluded Ambrose, and at times, got angry enough with Ambrose that Theodosius sent...
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Aelia Eudocia (category Theodosius II)
and young Theodosius, who was full of desire, fell in love instantly. Athenais had been raised pagan, and upon her marriage to Theodosius II converted...
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tradition gave the orthodox Theodosius most of the credit for the final triumph of Christianity. In keeping with this view of Theodosius, some previous scholars...
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Slovenia). He was then executed by Theodosius. With Maximus's death, Britain came back under the rule of Emperor Theodosius I until 392, when the usurper Eugenius...
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insulted Promotus, who slapped him; Rufinus went to Theodosius to report the affront, and Theodosius replied that if nothing changed he would have Rufinus...
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in 389. In 391, he followed Theodosius in the campaign against the barbarians in Macedonia. In that same year, Theodosius was on the verge of annihilating...
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Death of Theodosius I to the Death of Justinian Vol I (1958), p. 25 Bury, J. B. History of the Later Roman Empire From the Death of Theodosius I to the...
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Christianity and paganism (section Theodosius)
the eastern emperor, Theodosius seems to have practiced this same type of cautious policy from the beginning of his reign. Theodosius declared Nicene Christianity...
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Antioch (section Theodosius and after)
a new tax levied by order of Theodosius I, and the city was punished by the loss of its metropolitan status. Theodosius placed Antioch under Constantinople's...
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Emperor of Britain, a man who for a time divided the Roman Empire with Theodosius I, on withdrawing Roman legions from Britain granted civic status and...
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New Haven: Yale University Press. pp. 70. ISBN 978-0-300-16426-8. Goldsworthy, Adrian (2009). How Rome Fell: death of a superpower. New Haven: Yale...
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by colossal statue of Theodosius I, emperor; later used for statue of Anastasius, emperor. Constantinople, Forum of Theodosius (Tauros). 386-394 and 506"...
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Hagia Sophia (section Church of Theodosius II)
ancillary buildings intact. A second church on the site was ordered by Theodosius II (r. 402–450), who inaugurated it on 10 October 415. The Notitia Urbis...
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Boxing was a very popular sport until it was banned around 400 CE by Theodosius the Great because of its violence. Evidence for Roman boxing comes from...
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on how the dates of Livias were of high quality both juicy and sweet. Theodosius also praised the dates of Livias stating "it has there some great Nicolas...
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and Christians hid in the woods and inaccessible places. Later, during Theodosius I's reign (379–395), the temples of the traditional Greek religion were...
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in the 4th century B.C.E. before its destruction under the orders of Theodosius I in 390 C.E.. During antiquity, the temple was home to the famous Greek...
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(364) and his wife Charito Valentinian I (375) and his wife Marina Severa Theodosius I (395) Marcian (457) and Pulcheria (453) Ariadne (515) Anastasius I (518)...
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increasingly fearful that his younger brother, Theodosius, could oust him from the throne; he therefore obliged Theodosius to take holy orders and later had him...
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geographic regions. This division became permanent after the death of Theodosius I in 395, which historians have traditionally dated as the division between...
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shut down during the persecution of pagans in the late Roman Empire by Theodosius I in 381 AD. The Amphictyonic Council was a council of representatives...
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the state religion of the empire was changed to Christianity in 391 by Theodosius I. Consequently, there are many statues and busts of the first emperor...
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(link) Goldsworthy, Adrian (2009). How Rome Fell: death of a superpower. New Haven: Yale University Press. pp. 70–71. ISBN 978-0-300-16426-8. Gibbon, Ibid...
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Deane had committed suicide. The following year an anonymous pamphlet, Theodosius, attacked the scientist and clergyman Joseph Priestley by claiming that...
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Mother, and ascetic who lived during the reign of Emperor Honorius, son of Theodosius I. She is the paternal granddaughter of Melania the Elder. The Feast of...
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Reformer. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. p. 44. ISBN 978-0-300-16669-9. Hendrix, Scott H. (2015). Martin Luther: Visionary Reformer. New Haven, CT: Yale...
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Empire. It is attested from the time of the Christian late-Roman emperor Theodosius II (423) throughout the Middle Ages; the Reichsapfel was used in 1191...
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Palace of the Caesars, probably built over a thousand years before by Theodosius II, he uttered the famous lines of Saadi: The spider is curtain-bearer...
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when the Roman Empire was divided for the last time at the death of Theodosius I, Malta, following Sicily, fell under the control of the Western Roman...
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