Basiliscus the Younger

Basiliscus the Younger ( Middle Greek Βασιλίσκος , on coins Leo Caesar ) was 476–477 / 78 sub-emperor of the Eastern Roman emperor Zenon .

In August 476, Zenon dethroned the opposing emperor Basiliscus with military help and regained power in Constantinople . The incumbent consul Armatus , a nephew of Basiliscus, had previously defected to Zenon. In return, the younger basiliscus, son of Armatus, was elevated to Caesar in the autumn of 476 in Nicaia . Since his birth name was politically discredited, he was given the new name Leo in memory of Zenon's son, who had died two years earlier ; as Leo Novus Caesar he appears on coins together with Zenon. Due to the intrigues of Illus , Armatus fell out of favor with Zenon a little later and was murdered. Basiliscus Leo was deposed and put into the priestly robe; after Euagrios Scholastikos he later became bishop of Kyzikos .

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• Euagrios Scholastikos , Historia Ecclesiastica 3 , 24

literature

• Brian Croke: Basiliscus the Boy Emperor. In: Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies. Vol. 24, 1983, ISSN  0017-3916 , pp. 81-91.
• Gerard Friell, Stephen Williams: The Rome That Did Not Fall. The survival of the East in the fifth century. Routledge, London et al. 1999, ISBN 0-415-15403-0 .
• Ludo Moritz Hartmann : Basiliscus 3 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume III, 1, Stuttgart 1897, Col. 102.
• John Robert Martindale: Basiliscus 1. In: The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire (PLRE). Volume 2, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1980, ISBN 0-521-20159-4 , pp. 211-212.
• David L. Vagi: Coinage and history of the Roman Empire, c. 82 BC - AD 480. Dearborn, Chicago et al. 2000, ISBN 1-579-58316-4 , p. 626.

Web links

• Hugh Elton: Short biography (English) at De Imperatoribus Romanis (with references).