Arcadius

Arcadius Aelia Flaccilla, as well as the brother of Aelia Eudoxia.

Early life

Arcadius was born in 377 in Hispania, a eldest son of Theodosius I as well as Aelia Flaccilla, and brother of Honorius, who would become the Western Roman emperor. In 16 January 383, his father declared the five-year-old Arcadius an Augustus and co-ruler for the eastern half of the Empire. Later in the year a corresponding declaration filed Honorius Augustus of the western half. Arcadius passed his early years under the tutelage of the rhetorician Themistius and Arsenius Zonaras, a monk.