05-24-2006, 06:56 PM
Quote:Does anyone remember the name of the Isaurian advisor of the emperor Leo I (5th c.) By the way, he was called later "Zeno"...
I had to check it, I admit.
Tarasicodissa was a king of the Isaurians and came as a general to Constantinople as part of Leo's measures against the Goths. Zeno soon became comes domesticorum and gave his daughter Ariadne in marriage to the emperor.
Rhusumblada was the town where he hailed from, so stricktly speaking it was not his name.
Robert Vermaat
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FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
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MODERATOR
FECTIO Late Romans
THE CAUSE OF WAR MUST BE JUST
(Maurikios-Strategikon, book VIII.2: Maxim 12)
