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Historical person
Aelia Eudocia is represented in the linked historical fiction through court politics and dynastic power, family, marriage and personal loyalty, and empire, conquest and resistance. These works approach the figure through the surrounding events, relationships and political conflicts rather than through a standalone biography.
In Faith L. Justice’s Dawn Empress, as Theodosius reaches adulthood, Pulcheria must share influence with his wife Aelia Eudocia and contend with church disputes that make theology inseparable from politics. In Faith L. Justice’s Rebel Empress, born Athenais, the daughter of an Athenian philosopher, Aelia Eudocia comes to Constantinople and converts to Christianity before marrying Theodosius II. Other novels featuring Aelia Eudocia include Faith L. Justice’s The Theodosian Women Omnibus.
Series
The Theodosian Women series is a sequence of biographical historical novels about women who exercised power within the late Roman imperial house founded by Theodosius I. Across the courts of Ravenna and Constantinople, the books follow Galla Placidia, Pulcheria and Aelia Eudocia as daughters, sisters, wives, mothers and…
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