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Zeno (zē`nō), d. 491, Roman emperor of the East (474–491). An Isaurian, he succeeded his son Leo II and was the son-in-law of Leo I. During his reign he suppressed several revolts. He was driven from his throne for a period of 20 months (475–76) by the usurper Basiliscus Basiliscus (bă'sĭlĭs`kəs), d. c.477, usurper at Constantinople (475–76). ..... Click the link for more information. . One of his first acts was to conclude (476) a peace with the Vandal king Gaiseric Gaiseric (gī`sərĭk) or Genseric ..... Click the link for more information. . He supported orthodox Christianity and attempted to reconcile the Monophysites to the decrees of the Council of Chalcedon through his Henotikon (482), a compromise, which only provoked fresh controversy. Zeno was forced to recognize the de facto rule of Odoacer Odoacer (ōdōā`sər) or Odovacar ..... Click the link for more information. in Italy and to grant him the title of patrician. He freed the East from the raids of the Ostrogoths Ostrogoths (East Goths), division of the Goths, one of the most important groups of the Germans . According to their own unproven tradition, the ancestors of the Goths were the Gotar of S Sweden . By the 3d cent. A.D. ..... Click the link for more information. by encouraging the invasion of Italy by Theodoric the Great Theodoric the Great, c.454–526, king of the Ostrogoths and conqueror of Italy, b. Pannonia. He spent part of his youth as a hostage in Constantinople. Elected king in 471 after his father's death, he became involved in intrigues in which he was by turns the ..... Click the link for more information. (488). Zeno was succeeded by Anastasius I. Zenoorig. Tarasicodissa(born , Isauria, Diocese of the East—died April 9, AD 491) Eastern Roman emperor (474–491). A military leader, he married the daughter of Emperor Leo I (c. 466), and their son reigned briefly as Leo II (474). On the boy's early death, Zeno became emperor. Obliged to flee to Isauria to escape a coup d'état, he returned to Constantinople in 476. He made peace with the Vandals in Africa, put down a rebellion in Asia Minor (484), and persuaded the Ostrogoths to leave the Eastern Empire by making Theodoric king of Italy (489). Seeking to reconcile orthodox Christians and Monophysites, he caused a schism with Rome (484–519).
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| When Zeno was told that one of his enemies was no more he was With a loftier morality than that of the Epicureans, and a sterner sense of man's duties, Zeno and the Stoic philosophers prescribed suicide in certain cases to their followers. Plato, Zeno, Epicurus, Pythagoras--all founders of clubs. |
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