Seleucus (son of Ablabius)
Seleucus[1] also known as Flavius Seleucus[2] and Count Seleucus[3] (Greek: Σέλευκος; fl. 4th century AD) was a wealthy Greek rhetor who was a close friend of Libanius[4] and the Roman emperor Julian.[1]
Family and early life
Seleucus was a
Julian
Seleucus knew Julian since his student days
In November 361, Julian succeeded his paternal cousin
Life after Julian
Julian died in June 363 and Jovian succeeded Julian as Roman emperor. Jovian ruled as Roman emperor from 363 to 364. Sometime into Jovian's reign for unknown reasons and at an unknown date, Jovian dismissed Seleucus from his post and had him prosecuted, fined and exiled to Pontus.[1] After that moment, there is no more known of Seleucus.
Family and issue
Seleucus married an Antiochian Greek noblewoman called Alexandra.[12] The brother of Alexandra, Calliopius, was a friend of Seleucus and was an assistant teacher with Libanius.[13][14]
Alexandra bore Seleucus two known children:
- Daughter Olympias[15] who later became a great Christian saint[3] who was born sometime between 361 and 368
- Either a son or daughter, who was a parent of Olympias and Seleucus[5]
References
- ^ a b c d Lenski, Failure of Empire: A Valens and the Roman State in the Fourth Century A.D., p. 107
- ^ a b c d e f g h i Jones, The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire: Volume 1, AD 260-395, p. 818
- ^ a b Budge, Paradise of the Holy Fathers Part 1, p.163
- ^ Selected Letter of Libanius: From the Age of Constantius and Julian, pp. 51–52
- ^ a b c d Moret, Sertorius, Libanios, iconographie: a propos de Sertorius, journée d'étude, Toulouse, 7 avril 2000 [suivi de] autour de Libanios, culture et société dans l'antiquité tardive : actes de la table ronde, Avignon, 27 avril 2000, p. 207
- ^ Eunapius, The Life of Philosophers and Sophists, Book VI. Three. 1-7
- ^ Jones, The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire: Volume 1, AD 260-395, pp. 3–4
- ^ Salzman, The Making of a Christian Aristocracy: Social and Religious Change in the Western Roman Empire, p. 100
- ^ De Imperatoribus Romanis - An Online Encyclopedia of Roman Emperors: Constans I (337-350 A.D.)
- ^ Millar, The Roman Near East, 31 B.C.-A.D. 337, p. 210
- ^ a b c d e f Selected Letter of Libanius: From the Age of Constantius and Julian, p. 265
- ^ Selected Letter of Libanius: From the Age of Constantius and Julian, p. 45
- ^ Selected Letter of Libanius: From the Age of Constantius and Julian, p.108
- ^ Jones, The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire: Volume 1, AD 260-395, p. 175
- ^ Jones, The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire: Volume 1, AD 260-395, pp. 175 and 818
Sources
- De Imperatoribus Romanis - An Online Encyclopedia of Roman Emperors: Constans I (337-350 A.D.)
- A.H.M. Jones, J.R. Martindale & J. Morris, The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire: Volume 1, AD 260–395, Cambridge University Press, 1971
- M.R. Salzman, The Making of a Christian Aristocracy: Social and Religious Change in the Western Roman Empire, Harvard University Press, 2002
- E.A. Wallis Budge, Paradise of the Holy Fathers Part 1, Kessinger Publishing, 2003
- P. Moret & B. Cabouret, Sertorius, Libanios, iconographie: a propos de Sertorius, journée d'étude, Toulouse, 7 avril 2000 [suivi de] autour de Libanios, culture et société dans l'antiquité tardive : actes de la table ronde, Avignon, 27 avril 2000, Presses Univ. du Mirail, 2003
- N. Lenski, Failure of Empire: Valens and the Roman State in the Fourth Century A.D., University of California Press, 2003
- Selected Letters of Libanius: From the Age of Constantius and Julian, Liverpool University Press, 2004