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1 day ago · Serefiye Cistern, old Byzantine cistern built during the reign of Emperor Theodosius II, in the years 440-450 AD. Recently restored cistern offers views of multiple white marble columns and brick ...
3 days ago · During the reign of Theodosius II, the emperor's elder sister, the Augusta Pulcheria (r. 414–453) was challenged by the patriarch Nestorius (r. 10 April 428 – 22 June 431). The patriarch denied the Augusta access to the sanctuary of the "Great Church", likely on 15 April 428.
2 days ago · The Eastern Roman emperor Theodosius II, the successor of Arcadius, declared three days of mourning in Constantinople. Without Stilicho and following the sack of Rome, Honorius' reign grew more chaotic.
3 days ago · This division became permanent after the death of Theodosius I in 395, which historians have traditionally dated as the division between the Western Roman Empire and the Eastern Roman Empire. However, formally the Empire remained a single polity, with separate co-emperors in the separate courts. [10]
3 days ago · Check out this great listen on Audible.com. One of the most powerful woman in the Ancient World - Pulcheria was a Eastern Roman empress who advised her brother emperor Theodosius II and then became wife to emperor Marcian. Her influence of Christian dogma is huge and she convened some of the most ...
2 days ago · The double ramparts built under Theodosius II withstood attack for an entire millennium – only to finally succumb to Mehmed II’s giant cannons in 1453. Most of the outerwalls and their 96 towers survive, but some sections are better-preserved than others.
16 hours ago · The various neopagans that punctuate our paroikia blame Christian intolerance for this and in particular a purported decree by the Emperor Theodosius II, even though evidence exists to indicate ...
