Zeno
425 CE–491 CE · Constantinople
Zeno was Byzantine emperor from 474 to 491, an Isaurian general who married into the imperial family and briefly lost the throne to the usurper Basiliscus in 475–476 before regaining it. It was during his reign, in 476, that the last Western Roman emperor, Romulus Augustulus, was deposed by Odoacer, ending the line of Western emperors; Zeno later dispatched the Ostrogoth Theodoric to Italy, where he supplanted Odoacer. In 482 Zeno issued the Henotikon, a decree meant to reconcile Chalcedonian and Miaphysite Christians, which instead provoked the Acacian Schism with Rome. His reign was marked by repeated revolts and by his standing as an outsider from the empire's mountainous frontier.
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