Flavius Anthemius Isidorus (

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: Άνθέμιος Ίσίδωρος; 410–436) was a politician of the

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, the maternal uncle of the Western emperor

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 ...

Biography

A native of

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, Isidorus, the name by which he is known in almost all sources, was the son of

, the praetorian prefect of the East in 405–414, consul of 405 and grandfather of Emperor

. Isidorus was the Emperor's maternal uncle. Anthemius Isidorus Theofilus, governor () of

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in 434, was probably his son. At an indefinite period between 405 and 410, he was Proconsul of

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, as attested by inscriptions found in Hypaepa in

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. Between 4 September 410 and 29 October 412 he was '' praefectus urbi'' of

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; in that capacity he received some laws preserved in the Theodosian Code and the

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, which included one ordering him to complete the Baths of Honorius and build a portico in front of the structure. He undoubtedly obtained both offices due to the influence of his father, who, as Praetorian prefect of the East, had the real power. After serving as praetorian prefect of Illyricum (22 April to 10 October 424),''Theodosian Code'', xv.5.4 and xi.1.33. Isodorus himself was appointed to the powerful post of praetorian prefect of the East (29 January 435-4 August 436). He provided supplies to the city of

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during a famine. The city thanked him in an inscription. While praetorian prefect, he received two letters from Isidore of Pelusium. In 436 Isidorius was appointed ''consul prior'', along with

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. Isidorus died before 446/447.

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Bibliography

* Arnold Hugh Martin Jones, John Robert Martindale, John Morris, "Fl. Anthemius Isidorus 9", '' The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire'', Cambridge University Press, 1971, , pp. 631–633. {{DEFAULTSORT:Isidorus, Flavius Anthemius 5th-century Egyptian people 5th-century Roman consuls Praetorian prefects of the East Praetorian prefects of the Illyricum Roman governors of Asia Urban prefects of Constantinople