Anatolius (consul)
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)Anatolius (
Attila the Hun
on several occasions.
Biography
In 421, Anatolius led one Roman army in
war against the Sassanids
.
Anatolius was magister militum per Orientem from 433 to 446, reaching the consulate in 440, which he held with the Western Emperor Valentinian III as a colleague.
Accomplishments
In his capacity as magister militum, he built the fortress of
Sassanid army
, dismounted and advanced on foot. Yazdegerd, informed that he was the Roman general, was baffled by such a demonstration of respect and retired to his camp with the whole army. He received the envoy of Theodosius, treating him with honor and accepted peace.
In 442 Anatolius had donated a silver reliquary for the bones of
Edessa. He built a church at Antioch which took the name of the "Basilica of Anatolius". He received several letters from Theodoret
, with requests for help.
In 443, Anatolius managed to conclude a truce for one year with
magister militum praesentalis
(a position he held until at least the next year), and his friend went to meet Attila, who treated them badly at the beginning, but later succumbed to their oratorical arts and the gifts they had brought: Attila would accept the terms of the peace of 448, he would stop attacking the Emperor Theodosius II and give up the strip of land south of the Danube obtained with the peace of 448; it seems that the granting of the release of many prisoners to the Romans was a concession made personally to the two prestigious guests.
In 451 Anatolius participated in various sessions of the Council of Chalcedon as dean of the imperial representatives.
At the beginning of the reign of Marcian, Florentius and Anatolius dissuaded the Emperor from supporting the uprising of the Armenians against the Sassanid Empire.
References
- ISBN 0-203-99454-X, p. 259).
Bibliography
- Croke, Brian, Count Marcellinus and His Chronicle, Oxford University Press, 2001, ISBN 0-19-815001-6, p. 58.
- ISBN 0-521-20159-4, pp. 84–86.
- Thompson, Edward Arthur, The Huns, Blackwell Publishing, 1996, ISBN 0-631-21443-7, pp. 96–99, 134–135.
- Whitby, Michael, The Ecclesiastical History of Evagrius Scholasticus, Liverpool University Press, 2001, ISBN 0-85323-605-4, pp. 45–66.