By outlining this distinction between parallel tyrants, we find that a tyrant's particular point along the axes of desire and histrionics makes him highly idiosyncratic; we find the same thing in comparing two emperors who should have nothing in common, Valentinian III and Theodosius II.
Did it perhaps have something to do with his ill-advised but enthusiastic advancement of Valentinian III, whom he installed as emperor of the West and made his son-in-law?
(7) Petrus was bishop of Ravenna during the 430s and 440s, a period when the western imperial court normally resided in either Ravenna or Rome, so that he must have delivered a significant proportion of his more than 170 surviving sermons to congregations which included wealthy courtiers of
Valentinian III and his mother Galla Placidia.