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Headword: Poulcheria
Adler number: pi,2145
Translated headword: Poulcheria, Pulcheria
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Daughter of Arcadius and [sc. herself] a princess, when not yet 15 years old she managed the kingdom very well; she also educated her brother Theodosius.[1] For being most wise and having a god-like mind she dedicated her own virginity to God and taught her sisters to do the same. She prescribed rules for her brother in all things, and taught him behaviour and speech, walk and laughter and drape of garments and how to look like a king when sitting and standing; but above all else she carefully taught him piety towards God; and she did just the same concerning her sisters. Having herself founded many churches and poorhouses and hostels and monasteries she established processions [sc. at them] and by other numerous successes God often appeared through her. Her sisters were Arcadia and Marina.
[Theodosius] was naturally sluggish and inconsiderate and took everything for granted, especially those laying before him papyri that he signed before reading. Most wise Pulcheria, knowing this, once wisely beguiled him, presenting to him as a gift for slavery his own wife Eudocia. Having signed this without understanding it beforehand, he was later most terribly rebuked by Pulcheria.[2]
Pulcheria hated Nestorius so much, as those loving him report, that Nestorius charged Pulcheria with prostitution before her brother, Theodosius the emperor, and because of this he was so hated by her; for he reviled her to the great magister [sc. officiorum] of the day called Paulinus.
Greek Original:
Poulcheria, Arkadiou thugatêr kai basilis, ie# etôn oupô tunchanousa arista tên basileian diôikei: epaideuse de kai ton adelphon Theodosion. sophôtatê gar ousa kai theion noun kektêmenê tên te idian parthenian theôi prosanethêke kai tas adelphas to homoion praxai edidaxen. eis panta de ton adelphon ekanonizen, êthos te kai logon, badisma kai gelôta kai endumatôn peribolên kai schêma kathedras kai staseôs basilikôs exepaideuse: pro de ge hapantôn, tên eis to theion eusebeian auton epimelôs edidasken: hôsautôs de kai peri tas adelphas diegeneto. pollas de ekklêsias kai ptôcheia kai xenônas kai monastêria autê ktisasa kai prosodous aphôrise, kai pros allois muriois katorthômasi pollakis autêi kai to theion ephaineto. hai de adelphai Arkadia kai Marina. ho de phusei nôthros te kai aperiskeptos es panta men hupêrche, malista de es tous hupoballontas autôi chartas aparanagnôstôs hupegraphen. hoper hê sophôtatê gnousa pote Poulcheria sophôs hupêlthen auton, dôrean hupobalousa dêthen pros douleian tên heautou gametên Eudokian. hên kai kathupograpsas mê proteron anagnous husteron deinôs ôneidizeto para tês Poulcherias. hoti Poulcheria epi tosouton emisei ton Nestorion, hôs tous philountas ekeinon diathrulein, hoti porneian pros ton adelphon autês Theodosion ton basilea diebale Poulcherias Nestorios, kai dia touto houtôs hup' autês emiseito: eloidorei gar autên eis ton tote magistron Paulinon legomenon.
Notes:
Aelia Pulcheria (399-453); daughter, sister and wife of emperors (Arcadius, Theodosius II and Marcian respectively); also a saint in both the Catholic and the Eastern Orthodox churches. See also pi 2146.
The present entry's material comes in part from George the Monk (see n. 2 below) but mainly from Theodorus Anagnostes.
[1] Theodosius II, 401-450 AD. On Theodosius and Pulcheria see briefly OCD(4) p.1459.
[2] For this anecdote see George the Monk, Chronicon 611.5-11.
Keywords: biography; Christianity; clothing; economics; ethics; gender and sexuality; historiography; history; law; religion; women
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 15 April 2000@01:35:16.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (modified translation; added note; cosmetics) on 23 May 2001@07:07:49.
Catharine Roth (added keywords) on 3 October 2005@17:32:50.
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords) on 19 February 2010@06:05:39.
David Whitehead (modified end of translation, prompted by Dr George Bevan) on 24 August 2010@04:45:46.
David Whitehead (another note and keyword) on 11 October 2013@05:14:00.
David Whitehead on 10 August 2014@06:41:13.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 10 November 2014@10:21:07.
Catharine Roth (cosmeticule) on 10 November 2014@10:23:18.
David Whitehead (corrected a phrase in translation, at the prompting of John Raffan) on 16 January 2022@03:52:10.

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