Deck 4

Question 1

Cappadocian Fathers

Answer 1

Basil the Great (330–379), who was bishop of Caesarea;
Basil’s younger brother Gregory of Nyssa (c. 335 – c. 395), who was bishop of Nyssa;
and a close friend, Gregory of Nazianzus (329–389), who became Patriarch of Constantinople.

Question 2

Theodosius the Great

Answer 2

was instrumental in establishing the creed of Nicaea as the orthodox doctrine for Christianity

Question 3

Alter of Victory

Answer 3

in 384 Valentinian II denied the request to rebuild the alter as Ambrose, Bishop of Milan persuaded Valentinian to resist the request to preserve the altar.
in 391 by an edict of the emperor Theodosius I denied another request as part of his efforts to ensure that Christianity was the only religion practiced in the Empire.

Question 4

Honorius

Answer 4

Emperor from 393 to 423.
younger son of emperor Theodosius I
his first wife Aelia Flaccilla helped him rule as well as his sister
After the death of Theodosius, Honorius ruled the western half of the empire while his brother Arcadius ruled the eastern half

Question 5

Galla Placidia

Answer 5

captured by the Visigoths at a young age and forced into marriage
after she escaped the Visigoths, she was forced to marry again
sge had a daughter then a son

Question 6

Ravenna

Answer 6

Briefly a capital of eastern Rome during its fall,
Ravenna was taken by the barbarians.
in AD 540, the Byzantine emperor Justinian turned Ravenna into the westernmost pillar of the Byzantine Empire. A pinnacle of civilization in that age, Ravenna was a light in Europe’s Dark Ages

Question 7

Visigoths

Answer 7

an early Germanic people who, along with the Ostrogoths, constituted the two major political entities of the Goths within the Roman Empire in late antiquity, or what is known as the Migration Period.

Question 8

Arcadius

Answer 8

Arcadius was Roman emperor
He was the eldest son of the Augustus Theodosius I and his first wife Aelia Flaccilla
brother of Honorius.
Arcadius ruled the eastern half of the empire

Question 9

Theodosius II

Answer 9

Theodosius II was Roman emperor for most of his life,
proclaimed augustus as an infant in 402 and ruling as the eastern Empire’s sole emperor after the death of his father Arcadius in 408
brother of Pulcheria, Flaccilla