Juliana di Anicii

• Preferred Name: Juliana di Anicii^{[1] [2] [3]}
  
• Gender: F
  
• Clan Name: with note: Description: Gens Anicii
  
• Birth: ABT 461 in Roma, Lazio, Italy at LATI: N1.903 LONG: E2.4963
  
• Burial: 528 in Basilica of St Polyeuctus, Constantinople, Anatolia, Byzantine Empire at LATI: N1.15 LONG: E8.75 with note: probable burial site
  
• Death: 528 in Constantinople, Anatolia, Byzantine Empire at LATI: N1.15 LONG: E8.75
  
• FSID: LR5Q-96V
  
• Fact: with note: Description: https://www.geni.com/people/Anicia-Juliana/6000000007151046152?through=6000000007151145957
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  Wikipedia -
  
  Anicia Juliana (Constantinople, 462 – 527/528) was a Late Antiquity Roman imperial princess, wife of the magister militum of the eastern Roman empire, Areobindus Dagalaiphus Areobindus, patron of the great Church of St Polyeuctus in Constantinople, and owner of the Vienna Dioscurides. She was the daughter of the Roman emperor Olybrius (r. 472) and his wife Placidia, herself the daughter of the emperor Valentinian III (r. 425–455) and Licinia Eudoxia, through whom Anicia Juliana was also great-granddaughter of the emperor Theodosius II (r. 402–450) and the sainted empress Aelia Eudocia. During the rule of the Leonid dynasty and the rise of the later Justinian dynasty, Anicia Juliana was thus the most prominent member of both the preceding imperial dynasties, the Valentinianic dynasty established by Valentinian the Great (r. 364–375) and the related Theodosian dynasty established by Theodosius the Great (r. 379–395).
  
  Her son Olybrius Junior served as a Roman consul whilst only a child and married the niece of the emperor Anastasius I (r. 491–518), the daughter of Anastasius's brother Paulus. Despite Anicia Juliana's ambitions her son never became emperor, being ignored in the accession of Justin I (r. 518–527) after the death of Anastasius and the fall of the Leonid dynasty.
  
  Life
  She married Flavius Areobindus Dagalaiphus Areobindus, and their children included Olybrius, consul for 491. With her husband, she spent her life at the pre-Justinian court of Constantinople, of which she was considered "both the most aristocratic and the wealthiest inhabitant".[1]
  
  Her glittering genealogy aside, Juliana is primarily remembered as one of the first non-reigning female patrons of art in recorded history. From what little we know about her personal predilections, it appears that she "directly intervened in determining the content, as well, perhaps, as the style" of the works she commissioned.[2]
  
  Her pro-Roman political views, as espoused in her letter to Pope Hormisdas (preserved in the royal library of El Escorial) are reflected in the Chronicle of Marcellinus Comes, who has been associated with her literary circle. Whether Juliana entertained political ambitions of her own is uncertain, but it is known that her husband declined to take up the crown during the 512 riots. Although she resolutely opposed the Monophysite leanings of Emperor Anastasius, she permitted her son Olybrius to marry the Emperor's niece.[3]
  
  Artistic patronage[edit]
  Juliana's name is attached to the Vienna Dioscurides, also known as the Anicia Juliana Codex, an illuminated manuscript codex copy of Pedanius Dioscorides's De materia medica, known as the one of the earliest and most lavish manuscripts still in existence. It has a frontispiece with a donor portrait of Anicia Juliana, the oldest surviving such portrait in the history of manuscript illumination. The patrikia is shown enthroned and flanked by the personifications of Megalopsychia (Magnanimity) and Phronesis (Prudence), with a small female allegory labelled "Gratitude of the Arts" (Byzantine Greek: Eucharistia ton technon) performing proskynesis in honour of the patrikia, kissing her feet.[4] A putto is at Anicia Juliana's right side, handing her a codex and labelled with the Greek: ΠΟΘΟΣ ΤHΣ ΦΙΛΟΚΤΙΣΤΟΥ, romanized: pothos tes philoktistou, lit. 'yearning of the creation-lover', added in a later scribe's handwriting, interpreted as "the Desire to build", "the Love of building", or "the Desire of the building-loving woman".[4] The same hand has labelled the central figure as Sophia (Wisdom).[4]
  
  Folio 6 verso of the Vienna Dioscurides
  The badly damaged encircling inscription proclaims Juliana as a great patron of art and identifies the people of Honoratae (a town on the Asiatic shore of the Bosporus) as having given the codex to Anicia Juliana.[4] She probably received the book in gratitude for her having built a church in the town.[4] The inscription is corroborated by the 8th–9th-century chronicler Theophanes Confessor in a notice of the year 512 that Anicia Juliana dedicated a church to the Theotokos in Honoratae that year.[4] Emphasizing her membership of the ancient patrician Anicia gens through her father Flavius Anicius Olybrius, the inscription reads:[4]
  
  ΙΟΥ ΔΟΞΑΙϹΙ(Ν ΑΝΑϹϹΑ?)
  (ΟΝ)ΩΡΑΤ(ΑΙ Ϲ') Α(ΓΑ)Θ(ΑΙ)Ϲ Π(Α)Ϲ(ΑΙϹ)
  ΓΜΝΟΥϹΙΝ Κ(ΑΙ) ΔΟ(ΞΑΖΟΥϹΙΝ)
  ΛΑΛΙϹΑΙ ΓΑΡ ΕΙϹ ΠΑΣΑ(Ν) ΓΗΝ
  (Ι)ΗϹ'Η ΜΕΓΑΛΟ(Ψ)ΥΧΙΑ
  ΑΝΙΚΗΩΡΩΝ ΓΕΝΟ(Ϲ) ΠΕΛΕΙϹ
  ΝΑΟΝ (ΔΕ) Κ(ΓΡ)ΙΟΥ ΗΓΙΡΑϹ
  ΑΝΩ (ΠΡΟΕΚΒ)ΑΝΤΑ ΚΑΙ ΚΑΛΩϹ
  
  Hail, oh princess, Honoratae extols
  and glorifies you with all fine praises;
  for Magnanimity [Megalopsychia] allows you
  to be mentioned over the entire world.
  You belong to the family of the Anicii,
  and you have built a temple of the Lord,
  raised high and beautiful.
  
  —Codex Vindobonensis med. gr. 1. f. 6v.[5][6] —translation from Iohannis Spatharakis (1976) and Bente Kiilerich (2001)
  Of her architectural projects, we know only three churches which she commissioned to be erected and embellished in Constantinople. The ornate basilica of St Polyeuctus was built on her extensive family estates during the last three years of her life, with the goal of highlighting her illustrious pedigree which ran back to Theodosius I and Constantine the Great. Until Justinian's extension of the Hagia Sophia, it was the largest church in the imperial capital, and its construction was probably seen as a challenge to the reigning dynasty.[7] The dedicatory inscription compares Juliana to King Solomon and overtly alludes to Aelia Eudocia, Juliana's great-grandmother, who founded this church:
  
  Eudocia the empress, eager to honor God, first built here a temple of Polyektos the servant of God. But she did not make it as great and beautiful as it is... because her prophetic soul told her that she would leave a family well knowing how to adorn it. Whence Juliana, the glory of her blessed parents, inheriting their royal blood in the fourth generation, did not disappoint the hopes of the empress, the mother of a noble race, but raised this from a small temple to its present size and beauty. (Greek Anthology, I.10)

• m. ABT 478

1. Title: Wikipedia - the Church of St Polyeuctus built by Anicia Juliana
   Author: Cameron, Averil; Ward-Perkins, Bryan; Whitby, Michael (2000). Late Antiquity: Empire and Successors, AD 425-600. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-32591-2. Canepa, Matthew P. (2006). The Late Antique Kosmos of Power: International Ornament and Royal Identity in the Sixth and Seventh Centuries (PDF). 21st International Congress of Byzantine Studies. London. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-15. Retrieved 2009-06-15. Connor, Carolyn L. (2004). Women of Byzantium. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300099577. Fiolitaki, Penelope (2008-04-01). "St. Polyeuktos". Encyclopedia of the Hellenic World: Constantinople. Retrieved 2009-06-07
   Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_St._Polyeuctus;
   Note: Church of St. Polyeuctus remains The Church of St. Polyeuctus (Greek: Ἅγιος Πολύευκτος, translit. Hagios Polyeuktos; Turkish: Ayios Polieuktos Kilisesi) was an ancient Byzantine church in Constantinople (now Istanbul, Turkey) built by the noblewoman Anicia Juliana and dedicated to Saint Polyeuctus. Intended as an assertion of Juliana's own imperial lineage, it was a lavishly decorated building, and the largest church of the city before the construction of the Hagia Sophia. It introduced the large-scale use of Sassanid Persian decorative elements, and may have inaugurated the new architectural type of domed basilica, perfected in the later Hagia Sophia. The church survived until the 11th century, when it was abandoned. Thereafter it was liberally plundered for sculptures and other architectural elements (spolia) by both the Byzantines and, after the sack of the city in 1204, by the Crusaders. Several pieces from St. Polyeuctus were reused in the Monastery of Christ Pantokrator (the modern Zeyrek Mosque),[8] and various pieces such as capitals were spread to places as far as Venice, Barcelona and Vienna,[9] including the so-called Pilastri Acritani ("Pillars of Acre") in St Mark's Basilica, Venice.[2] Despite its architectural prominence, very little is known of the church's history and its precise architecture. Most of the information on the church's original appearance is derived from the epigram in honour of Juliana and her family, which was inscribed in pieces in various parts of the church.[7] The epigram claims that the church was laid out as a replica of the ancient Jewish Temple with the precise proportions given in the Bible for the Temple of Solomon, and using the royal cubit as a unit of measure, as in its model.[11][12] Richard Martin Harrison, the site's chief excavator, has reconstructed the church as a roughly square basilica, ca. 52 m long on the sides, with a central nave and two side aisles, fronted by a narthex and preceded by a large atrium of 26 m length. To the north of the atrium, remains of another building have been identified as either the church's baptistery or Juliana's palace.[9]
   
2. Title: Wikipedia - Anicia Juliana
   Author: Maas, Michael. The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Justinian. Cambridge University Press, 2005. Page 439. ^ Natalie Harris Bluestone, Double Vision: Perspectives on Gender and the Visual Arts (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1995), p. 76 ISBN 0-8386-3540-7 ^ G.W. Bowersock, Oleg Grabar, Late Antiquity: A Guide to the Postclassical World (Harvard University Press, 1999), pp. 300-301 ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g Kiilerich, Bente (2001-01-01). "The Image of Anicia Juliana in the Vienna Dioscurides: Flattery or Appropriation of Imperial Imagery?". Symbolae Osloenses. 76 (1): 169–190. doi:10.1080/003976701753388012. ISSN 0039-7679. S2CID 161294966. ^ Kiilerich, Bente (2001-01-01). "The Image of Anicia Juliana in the Vienna Dioscurides: Flattery or Appropriation of Imperial Imagery?". Symbolae Osloenses. 76 (1): 169–190. doi:10.1080/003976701753388012. ISSN 0039-7679. S2CID 161294966. ^ Spatharakis, Iohannis (1976). The Portrait in Byzantine Illuminated Manuscripts. Byzantina Neerlan
   Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anicia_Juliana;
   Note: The presentation miniature of patrikia Anicia Juliana flanked by Megalopsychia and Phronesis. (Codex Vindobonensis med. gr. 1., folio 6v.) Anicia Juliana (Constantinople, 462 – 527/528) was a Late Antique Roman imperial princess, wife of the magister militum of the eastern Roman empire, Areobindus Dagalaiphus Areobindus, patron of the great Church of St Polyeuctus in Constantinople, and owner of the Vienna Dioscurides. She was the daughter of the Roman emperor Olybrius (r. 472) and his wife Placidia, herself the daughter of the emperor Valentinian III (r. 425–455) and Licinia Eudoxia, through whom Anicia Juliana was also great-granddaughter of the emperor Theodosius II (r. 402–450) and the sainted empress Aelia Eudocia. During the rule of the Leonid dynasty and the rise of the later Justinian dynasty, Anicia Juliana was thus the most prominent member of both the preceding imperial dynasties, the Valentinianic dynasty established by Valentinian the Great (r. 364–375) and the related Theodosian dynasty established by Theodosius the Great (r. 379–395). Her son Olybrius Junior served as a Roman consul whilst only a child and married the niece of the emperor Anastasius I (r. 491–518), the daughter of Anastasius's brother Paulus. Despite Anicia Juliana's ambitions her son never became emperor, being ignored in the accession of Justin I (r. 518–527) after the death of Anastasius and the fall of the Leonid dynasty. Contents 1 Life 2 Artistic patronage 3 See also 4 References Life[edit] She married Flavius Areobindus Dagalaiphus Areobindus, and their children included Olybrius, consul for 491. With her husband, she spent her life at the pre-Justinian court of Constantinople, of which she was considered "both the most aristocratic and the wealthiest inhabitant".[1] Her glittering genealogy aside, Juliana is primarily remembered as one of the first non-reigning female patrons of art in recorded history. From what little we know about her personal predilections, it appears that she "directly intervened in determining the content, as well, perhaps, as the style" of the works she commissioned.[2] Her pro-Roman political views, as espoused in her letter to Pope Hormisdas (preserved in the royal library of El Escorial) are reflected in the Chronicle of Marcellinus Comes, who has been associated with her literary circle. Whether Juliana entertained political ambitions of her own is uncertain, but it is known that her husband declined to take up the crown during the 512 riots. Although she resolutely opposed the Monophysite leanings of Emperor Anastasius, she permitted her son Olybrius to marry the Emperor's niece.[3] Artistic patronage[edit] Juliana's name is attached to the Vienna Dioscurides, also known as the Anicia Juliana Codex, an illuminated manuscript codex copy of Pedanius Dioscorides's De materia medica, known as the one of the earliest and most lavish manuscripts still in existence. It has a frontispiece with a donor portrait of Anicia Juliana, the oldest surviving such portrait in the history of manuscript illumination. The patrikia is shown enthroned and flanked by the personifications of Megalopsychia (Magnanimity) and Phronesis (Prudence), with a small female allegory labelled "Gratitude of the Arts" (Byzantine Greek: Eucharistia ton technon) performing proskynesis in honour of the patrikia, kissing her feet.[4] A putto is at Anicia Juliana's right side, handing her a codex and labelled with the Greek: ΠΟΘΟΣ ΤHΣ ΦΙΛΟΚΤΙΣΤΟΥ, romanized: pothos tes philoktistou, lit. 'yearning of the creation-lover', added in a later scribe's handwriting, interpreted as "the Desire to build", "the Love of building", or "the Desire of the building-loving woman".[4] The same hand has labelled the central figure as Sophia (Wisdom).[4] Folio 6 verso of the Vienna Dioscurides The badly damaged encircling inscription proclaims Juliana as a great patron of art and identifies the people of Honoratae (a town on the Asiatic shore of the Bosporus) as having given the codex to Anicia Juliana.[4] She probably received the book in gratitude for her having built a church in the town.[4] The inscription is corroborated by the 8th–9th-century chronicler Theophanes Confessor in a notice of the year 512 that Anicia Juliana dedicated a church to the Theotokos in Honoratae that year.[4] Emphasizing her membership of the ancient patrician Anicia gens through her father Flavius Anicius Olybrius, the inscription reads:[4] ΙΟΥ ΔΟΞΑΙϹΙ(Ν ΑΝΑϹϹΑ?) (ΟΝ)ΩΡΑΤ(ΑΙ Ϲ') Α(ΓΑ)Θ(ΑΙ)Ϲ Π(Α)Ϲ(ΑΙϹ) ΓΜΝΟΥϹΙΝ Κ(ΑΙ) ΔΟ(ΞΑΖΟΥϹΙΝ) ΛΑΛΙϹΑΙ ΓΑΡ ΕΙϹ ΠΑΣΑ(Ν) ΓΗΝ (Ι)ΗϹ'Η ΜΕΓΑΛΟ(Ψ)ΥΧΙΑ ΑΝΙΚΗΩΡΩΝ ΓΕΝΟ(Ϲ) ΠΕΛΕΙϹ ΝΑΟΝ (ΔΕ) Κ(ΓΡ)ΙΟΥ ΗΓΙΡΑϹ ΑΝΩ (ΠΡΟΕΚΒ)ΑΝΤΑ ΚΑΙ ΚΑΛΩϹ Hail, oh princess, Honoratae extols and glorifies you with all fine praises; for Magnanimity [Megalopsychia] allows you to be mentioned over the entire world. You belong to the family of the Anicii, and you have built a temple of the Lord, raised high and beautiful. —Codex Vindobonensis med. gr. 1. f. 6v.[5][6] —translation from Iohannis Spatharakis (1976) and Bente Kiilerich (2001) Of her architectural projects, we know only three churches which she commissioned to be erected and embellished in Constantinople. The ornate basilica of St Polyeuctus was built on her extensive family estates during the last three years of her life, with the goal of highlighting her illustrious pedigree which ran back to Theodosius I and Constantine the Great. Until Justinian's extension of the Hagia Sophia, it was the largest church in the imperial capital, and its construction was probably seen as a challenge to the reigning dynasty.[7] The dedicatory inscription compares Juliana to King Solomon and overtly alludes to Aelia Eudocia, Juliana's great-grandmother, who founded this church: Eudocia the empress, eager to honor God, first built here a temple of Polyektos the servant of God. But she did not make it as great and beautiful as it is... because her prophetic soul told her that she would leave a family well knowing how to adorn it. Whence Juliana, the glory of her blessed parents, inheriting their royal blood in the fourth generation, did not disappoint the hopes of the empress, the mother of a noble race, but raised this from a small temple to its present size and beauty. (Greek Anthology, I.10)
   
3. Title: Foundation for Medieval Genealogy
   Publication: Name: https://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ITALY,%20Kings%20to%20962.htm#OlybriussonAreobindus;
   Note: Areobindus & his wife had one child: i) OLYBRIUS (-after 526). The Chronicon Paschale names "Olybrius minor" as son of "Areobindi" and his wife[187]. Ioannes Malalas names "Consule Olybrio, Ariobindi filio"[188]. The Chronographia Brevis of Patriarch Nikephoros names "Olybrius" as son of "Placidia, Areobindi uxor"[189]. The Chronicon Paschale names "Olybrio" as sole consul in 491 and in 526[190]. m EIRENE, daughter of --- & his wife Magna ---. The Chronographia Brevis of Patriarch Nikephoros records that "Olybrius", son of "Placidia, Areobindi uxor", married "Irenes…quæ Magnæ Anastasii Imp. sororis filia fuit"[191]. She is recorded as the daughter of Magna[192]. Olybrius & his wife had two or more children (The following descent is shown by Montfaucon in a genealogical table of the descendants of Emperor Valentinian I, but he cites no primary sources on which the information is based[193].): (a) [194]PROBA . m PROBUS, son of ---. Probus & his wife had one child: (1) [195]IULIANA . m ANASTASIUS, son of ---[196]. Anastasius & his wife had three children: a. [197]AREOBINDUS . b. [198]PLACIDIA . [199]m IOANNES Mysticon ---. c. [200]PROBA . m GEORGIUS ---. (b) daughters .