biography
| name: |
Eudocia
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originally Athenais
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pronunciation:
[yoodohsha]
| sex:
| female
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| lived:
| (401–65)
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| biography:
| Byzantine princess, born in Athens, Greece, the wife of the Eastern Roman emperor Theodosius II (ruled 408–50). She was baptized a Christian and changed her name before her marriage in 421. After a quarrel with her sister-in-law, Pulcheria, she retired to Jerusalem in 443, where she supervised the building of several churches. She wrote a panegyric on Theodosius's victories over the Persians (422), paraphrases of Scripture, hymns, and poetry. |
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