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Historical person
Theodosius II 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, after Arcadius dies, seven-year-old Theodosius II inherits the Eastern Roman throne. 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 Theodosius II 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…
All books in this series
Non Fiction
Biographies, histories and other non-fiction are listed separately from the historical novels above.
