PersonAD 347 – AD 395
Theodosius I
Also called: Theodosius the Great
Last emperor to rule the whole Roman Empire (r. 379–395), who made Christianity the state religion and divided the empire between his two sons at his death
Also called: Theodosius the Great
Last emperor to rule the whole Roman Empire (r. 379–395), who made Christianity the state religion and divided the empire between his two sons at his death
When Emperor Theodosius died in 395 he left the empire to his two sons, splitting it into the Western Roman Empire and the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire.
From the Aegean civilisation to the fall of the Western Roman Empire — the classical civilisation built by the democracy of the polis and the Roman republic and empire