Pusaeus (

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: Πουσαίος; 465–467) was a politician of the Roman Empire.

Biography

Pusaeus was a pupil of the

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philosopher

Proclus Proclus Lycius (; 8 February 412 – 17 April 485), called Proclus the Successor (, ''Próklos ho Diádokhos''), was a Greek Neoplatonist philosopher, one of the last major classical philosophers of late antiquity. He set forth one of th ...

, at his school in

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. Other noteworthy figures belonged to the same pagan circle and studied with Pusaeus, such as

Pamprepius Pamprepius (, ''Pamprépios''; Latin: ''Pamprepius''; 29 September 440 – November 484) was a philosopher and a pagan poet who rebelled against the Eastern Roman Emperor Zeno (emperor), Zeno. Damascius described him as a brilliant poet, Malchu ...

(poet and supporter of

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' usurpation), Marcellinus (later semi-independent military commander of Illyricum),

Anthemius Procopius Anthemius (; died 11 July 472) was the Western Roman Empire, Western Roman emperor from 467 to 472. Born in the Byzantine Empire, Eastern Roman Empire, Anthemius quickly worked his way up the ranks. He married into the Theodosian dyna ...

(

consul Consul (abbrev. ''cos.''; Latin plural ''consules'') was the title of one of the two chief magistrates of the Roman Republic, and subsequently also an important title under the Roman Empire. The title was used in other European city-states thro ...

and western emperor), and

Messius Phoebus Severus Messius Phoebus Severus (''floruit'' 469–470) was a Roman politician and philosopher. He was appointed consul with Flavius Iordanes for 470. Biography Born in Rome, he studied at the school of the neoplatonist philosopher Proclus, in Alexan ...

(Consul and ''

praefectus urbi The ''praefectus urbanus'', also called ''praefectus urbi'' or urban prefect in English, was prefect of the city of Rome, and later also of Constantinople. The office originated under the Roman kings, continued during the Republic and Empire, an ...

''). In 465 Pusaeus was

praetorian prefect of the East The praetorian prefecture of the East, or of the Orient (, ) was one of four large praetorian prefectures into which the Late Roman Empire was divided. As it comprised the larger part of the Eastern Roman Empire, and its seat was at Constantinop ...

. In 467, while his old friend Anthemius sat on the Western throne, he held the consulate. An inscription in Latin, surrounded by Greek inscriptions, and walled in the

walls of Constantinople The Walls of Constantinople (; ) are a series of defensive wall, defensive stone walls that have surrounded and protected the city of Constantinople (modern Fatih district of Istanbul) since its founding as the new capital of the Roman Empire b ...

(near the fifth tower), reads: "Pusaeus, no less than the great

, strengthened towers and walls".Grosvenor, Edwin Augustus, ''Constantinople'', volume 2, Adamant Media Corporation, , p. 613.

Notes

Bibliography

* O'Meara, Dominic, ''Platonopolis: Platonic Political Philosophy in Late Antiquity'', Oxford University Press, 2003, , p. 21. 5th-century Byzantine people 5th-century Roman consuls Praetorian prefects of the East 5th-century Greek philosophers {{AncientGreece-philosopher-stub