Anthemius
c. 420 CE–c. 472 CE · Istanbul
Anthemius (c. 420–472 CE) was an Eastern-born aristocrat of the noble Procopii family whom the Eastern emperor Leo I installed as Western Roman emperor in 467. His major undertaking, a large joint East–West naval expedition against the Vandal kingdom of North Africa, ended in disaster in 468, fatally weakening his position. He was deposed and killed in 472 during a civil war with the general Ricimer, shortly before the final collapse of the Western Empire.
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Istanbul
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About Istanbul
Istanbul (formerly Constantinople), on the Bosphorus straddling Europe and Asia in modern Turkey, became the capital of the Ottoman Empire after its conquest by Mehmed II in 1453 and the seat of the Ottoman caliphate and the Shaykh al-Islam. The chief jurist Ebussuud Efendi (d. 1574) served there, and the polymath Katib Celebi (d. 1657) and the reformer Said Nursi (d. 1960) were active in the city.
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Thinkers, teachers, and rulers whose lives overlapped with Anthemius’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.
Graeco-Roman world
- Plutarch of Athens· 350 CE–432 CE
- Constantius III· 360 CE–421 CE
- Hephaestion of Thebes· 380 CE–
- Honorius· 384 CE–423 CE
- Avitus· 385 CE–456 CE
- Macrobius· 385 CE–430 CE
- Syrianus· 390 CE–437 CE
- Petronius Maximus· 397 CE–455 CE
- Proclus the Grammarian· 410 CE–
- Proclus· 412 CE–485 CE
- Nonnus of Panopolis· 415 CE–475 CE
- Valentinian III· 419 CE–455 CE
- Libius Severus· 420 CE–465 CE
- Glycerius· 420 CE–480 CE
- Majorian· 420 CE–461 CE
- Olybrius· 430 CE–472 CE
- Julius Nepos· 430 CE–480 CE
- Marinus· 440 CE–500 CE
- Ammonius· 440 CE–520 CE
- Damascius· 458 CE–538 CE
- Zosimus· 460 CE–520 CE
- Romulus Augustulus· 465 CE–511 CE
- Colluthus of Lycopolis· 470 CE–520 CE
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