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Aelia Eudocia
Aelia Eudocia Augusta (Late Greek: Αιλία Ευδοκία Αυγούστα; 401 – 460 AD), also called Saint Eudocia, was the wife of Theodosius II, and a prominent historical figure in understanding the rise of Christianity during the beginning of the Byzantine Empire. Eudocia lived in a world where Greek paganism and Christianity were existing side by side with both pagans and unorthodox Christians being persecuted.〔See Gunter Wagner, Pauline Baptism and the Pagan Mysteries (Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1967), 260ff.〕 Although Eudocia's work has been mostly ignored by modern scholars, her poetry and literary work are great examples of how her Christian faith and Greek upbringing were intertwined, exemplifying a legacy that the Byzantine Empire left behind on the Christian world.
==Early life==
Aelia Eudocia was born around 400 A.D. in either Athens or Antioch, she was born to a family of Greek descent, her father was a Greek philosopher named Leontius. Leontius taught Rhetoric at the Academy, where people from all over the Mediterranean came to either teach or learn. Eudocia's given name was Athenais, which her parents named her after the city's protector Pallas-Athena.〔Jeanne Tstastaos, Empress Athenais-Edocia: A Fifth Century Byzantine Humanist. (Brookline: Holy Cross Orthodox Press, 1977), 10.〕 Her father was rich, and had a magnificent house in Acropolis which had a large courtyard in which young Athenais frequently played as a child.〔 She had a gift for memorization, and easily learned the poetry of Homer and Pindar, which her father would recite to her. From her father Leontius she received a thorough training in literature and rhetoric.
When she was 12 years old, her mother died and she became her father's comfort, taking on the responsibilities of household chores, raising her siblings and tending to her father. She had two brothers, Gessius and Valerius, who would later be rewarded in court by their sister and brother in law. In return, her father spent time teaching her rhetoric, poetry, and philosophy. He taught her "Socratic Virtue of Knowledge, of moderation", and predicted that she would have a great destiny.〔Tsatsos, 11〕 His teachings and role as her father did greatly prepare her for her destiny. When he died in 420, she was devastated. In his will, he left all property to her brothers, and left her only a 100 coins, saying, "sufficient for her is her destiny which will be the greatest of any woman".〔 She had been her father's confidante, and expected more than 100 coins. She begged her brothers to be fair and give her an equal share of the property, but they refused.
Athenais then went to live with her aunt, shortly after her father's death at age 20. Her aunt told her to go to Constantinople to "ask for justice from the Emperor", that she would receive her fair share of her father's wealth.〔Tsatsos, 12.〕 Her father greatly impacted her, and influenced her literary work later on in life after she became Empress.
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