Constantina, daughter of Constantine, wife of Gallus Caesar, and patron of St. Agnes at Rome
Julia Hillner
Constantina, born in c. 320, was the eldest daughter of Constantine I. She was married twice, first in 335 to her cousin Hannibalianus, whose death in 337 left her widowed, and second in ...
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Proclus Constantinopolitanus, c. 385–446 CE; bishop, 434–446 CE
Maximos Constas
An early archbishop of Constantinople and a popular preacher in the rhetorical style of Gregory Nazianzus (d. 390), Proclus was the principal architect of the Byzantine cult of the Virgin Mary. ...
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Madaba Map
Richard J. A. Talbert
This damaged, but still striking, floor-mosaic map offers a unique and invaluable example of late antique cartography, as well as the earliest surviving vision of the Holy Land. The map was ...
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Constantia, half-sister of Constantine and wife of Licinius
Julia Hillner
Late antique sources remember Flavia Iulia Constantia,1 conventionally for her loyalty to her imperial relatives, both by birth and by marriage, and, more innovatively, for her Christian patronage, a ...
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(Aelia) Eudocia, c. 400–460 CE
Pavlos Avlamis
Originally named Athenais, Eudocia was the daughter of Leontius, a teacher of rhetoric. She was born in Athens (Evagrius Scholasticus Historia ecclesiastica 1.20) and probably followed her father in ...
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Uranius, Greek writer about Arabia
Simon Hornblower
His date is not quite certain, but 4th century ce (rather than three centuries earlier) seems likeliest. He is a source for much of the Arabian information in Stephanus of Byzantium, in ...
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Benedictus Nursinus, c. 480–c. 550 CE
Scott G. Bruce
Benedict of Nursia was an Italian abbot active in the hinterland of Rome at Subiaco and Monte Cassino in the early 6th century. He is best known as the author of a normative guide for monastic life, ...
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Zonaras, Johannes, Byzantine historian and canonist
Arnaldo Momigliano
A commander of the body-guard and imperial secretary, he was probably forced to retire into monastic life after the failure of the conspiracy to make Anna Comnena empress in 1118 ce. Living in exile ...
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