Flavius ​​Zeno

Flavius ​​Zeno (or Zenon ) was an Eastern Roman general in the 5th century. He was the father of the future emperor Zenon .

Zenon was of Isaur descent and made a career in the Eastern Roman military, where several Isaurians rose in the 5th century. He made a name for himself at the head of Isaurian troops by successfully defending the Eastern Roman capital Constantinople against the Hun king Attila in 447 . At that time he was perhaps already acting as magister militum per Orientem , i.e. as commander in chief of the Roman troops on the eastern border with Persia . In 448 he held the consulate .

In the following two years he resisted attempts by some court circles to pursue a peace policy towards Attila. In 450 Constantinople apparently feared that Zeno would revolt after a treaty had been signed with Attila. Nevertheless, Zenon was appointed patricius in 451 . He died in the reign of Markian ( i.e. before 457). Zenon's son Tarasicodissa later took the name Zenon, most likely due to his father's well-known achievements.

literature

• Karl field: Barbaric citizens: The Isaurians and the Roman Empire. De Gruyter , Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-11-018899-6 , p. 212ff. (= Millennium Studies, Volume 8).
• John Robert Martindale: Fl. Zenon 6th In: The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire (PLRE). Volume 2, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1980, ISBN 0-521-20159-4 , pp. 1199-1200.

Remarks

1. ^ Priskos , Fragment 8 [Edition Karl Müller : Fragmenta historicorum Graecorum . Volume 4, Paris 1851; New edition with a different fragment count and English translation by Roger C. Blockley : The Fragmentary Classicizing Historians of the Later Roman Empire . Volume 2, Liverpool 1983].
2. ↑ Priskos, fragment 14; Johannes von Antiochia , fragment 223 [Edition Sergei Mariev (ed.): Ioannis Antiocheni fragmenta quae supersunt . Berlin-New York 2008, pp. 402-404].
3. ↑ Cf. Euagrios Scholastikos , Kirchengeschichte , 2.15; it is a fragment from the lost history of Eustathios of Epiphaneia .