[Sca-cooks] Re: 1250

[Terry Decker]

I was working from memory.

Checking the quick ref (which does not list Anthimus), Theodoric should be
Theodoric the Great, 454? - 526, who was the King of the Eastern Goths
(Ostrogoths) 474 - 526.  At the time, the Ostrogoths lived in the region of
modern Hungary and raided into the Byzantine Empire.

Zeno was the Eastern Emperor from 474 to 491.  He negotiated a peace with
the Ostrogoths, making Theodoric a consul in the process.  In 488, he sent
the Ostrogoths into Italy where they created the Ostrogothic Kingdom of
Italy which came under the rule of the Empire in 552(?).

The King of the (Salian) Franks at this time was Childeric, who was
succeeded by his son Clovis in 481.

Bear


>> Anthimus is early 6th Century, as he is writing to Theodoric, King of the
>> Ostrogoths.
>
>Please check your references, Bear. My copy of Anthimus describes this
>letter as having been intercepted by Zeno's agents about 478, thus leading
>to Anthimus' exile. The letter was sent to the other Theodoric, King of the
>Frankish Goths ( Incipit epistula Anthimi uiri inlustris comitis et
>legatarii ad gloriosissimum Theudoricum regem francorum) or, "begins (the)
>letter of Anthimus, illustrius Count and Legate to (the) most glorious
>Theodoric, King (of the) Franks"
>
>Too many Theodorics and Theodoras running around about then....
>
>Phlip