阿卡狄奧斯

弗拉維·阿卡狄奧斯（377年或378年—408年5月1日），是東羅馬皇帝，統治著半個羅馬帝國，他於395年即位，一直到他逝世。

阿卡狄奧斯是狄奧多西一世和Aelia Flaccilla的長子，西羅馬皇帝霍諾留斯的兄弟。His father declared him an Augustus in 383年1月。His younger brother was also declared an Augustus in 393.

As emperors, Honorius was under the control of the Romanized Vandal magister militum Flavius Stilicho while Arcadius was dominated by one of his ministers, Rufinus. Stilicho is alleged by some to have wanted control of both emperors, and is supposed to have had Rufinus assassinated by Gothic mercenaries in 395, but definite proof of these allegations is lacking. In any case, Arcadius' new advisor Eutropius simply took Rufinus' place as the power behind the Eastern imperial throne. Arcadius was also dominated by his wife Aelia Eudoxia, who convinced her husband to dismiss Eutropius in 399. Eudoxia was strongly opposed by John Chrysostom, the Patriarch of Constantinople, who felt that she had used her family's wealth to gain control over the emperor. Eudoxia used her influence to have Chrysostom deposed in 404, but she died later that year.

Arcadius was dominated for the rest of his rule by Anthemius, the Praetorian Prefect, who made peace with Stilicho in the West. Arcadius himself was more concerned with appearing to be a pious Christian than he was with political or military matters, and he died, only nominally in control of his empire, in 408.

外部連結

• Laws of Arcadius, extracted from Justinian's Corpus Juris Civilis