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Serena (died 409) was a member of the Theodosian dynasty as the niece of the emperor Theodosius I, as well as the wife of the military commander Stilicho. Family [ edit ] Serena was the daughter of Honorius, the brother of Theodosius I and son of Theodosius the Elder , and her mother's name is presumed to be Maria.
Serena (360-409) was a Roman noblewoman who was the wife of Stilicho, the mother of Maria, and the mother-in-law of Emperor Honorius. Serena was the niece of Emperor Theodosius I and the cousin of Honorius, and, in 384, Theodosius arranged for her to marry the half-Vandal military officer...
Jun 27, 2024 · One of the best known (and best preserved) of late-antique ivories is what is generally known as the Stilicho diptych, kept in the tesoro of the cathedral at Monza.
- Alan Cameron
- 2016
Stilicho [2] ( / ˈstɪlɪkoʊ /; c. 359 – 22 August 408) was a military commander in the Roman army who, for a time, became the most powerful man in the Western Roman Empire. [3] [4] He was partly of Vandal origins and married to Serena, the niece of emperor Theodosius I. He became guardian for the underage Honorius. [5] .
May 14, 2021 · To keep his best general Stilicho closely allied, he married him to Serena in 384. In spite of Stilicho spending much time in the field fending off invading Goths, they had three children: Maria, Thermantia, and Eucherius.
Aug 22, 2008 · Stilicho and his wife Serena, with their child: two were executed, one was murdered. Distrusted because of his part-barbarian parentage — and hated by the still-significant pagan community for burning the Sibylline Books — Stilicho’s service never made him popular.
Ever since the basic article by C. Jullian more than 130 years ago,1 it has been gen-erally accepted that the only candidates who fit this description are the western magister utriusque militiae Stilicho (d. 408), his wife Serena, the niece and (according to Claudian) adoptive daughter of Theodosius I, and their son Eucherius, appointed to the o...
