Arcadia (daughter of Arcadius) explained
Arcadia (Greek: Άρκαδία; 3 April 400 - 444) was the third daughter of the Roman emperor Arcadius and Aelia Eudoxia and a member of the Theodosian dynasty.
Life
Her next sibling was the male heir and future emperor Theodosius II . Following the example of her older sister Aelia Pulcheria she took a vow of virginity, but unlike her, she never married, devoting herself to religion. Arcadia died in 444.[1]
Constructions
In Constantinople, she ordered the construction, near the Gate of Saturninus,[2] of a monastery dedicated to Saint Andrew. The building, named also Rodophylion lay about 600 m. west of the gate.[3] Heavily transformed, the church of the monastery is now the Koca Mustafa Pasha Mosque of Istanbul. Arcadia had two mansions, and possibly built a bath in Constantinople.
Sources
- «Arcadia 1», PLRE I, p. 129.
- Book: Janin
, Raymond
. Raymond Janin . La Géographie Ecclésiastique de l'Empire Byzantin. 1. Part: Le Siège de Constantinople et le Patriarcat Oecuménique. 3rd Vol. : Les Églises et les Monastères . Institut Français d'Etudes Byzantines . Paris . fr . 1953.
- Book: Müller-Wiener
, Wolfgang
. Wolfgang Müller-Wiener . Bildlexikon Zur Topographie Istanbuls: Byzantion, Konstantinupolis, Istanbul Bis Zum Beginn D. 17 Jh . Wasmuth . Tübingen . 1977 . de . 978-3-8030-1022-3.
Notes and References
- Book: Angelova, Diliana . Sacred Founders: Women, Men, and Gods in the Discourse of Imperial Founding, Rome Through Early Byzantium . University of California Press . 2015 . 978-052-028-401-2 . 148-155.
- Janin (1953), 34. "A gate of the now vanished Constantinian wall of the city."
- Müller-Wiener (1977), p. 172.