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The Galli or Priests of Cybele were eunuchs. In the late period of the Roman Empire, after the adoption of the oriental royal court model by the Emperors Diocletian (r. 284–305) and Constantine (r. 306–337), emperors were surrounded by eunuchs for such functions as bathing, haircutting, dressing, and bureaucratic functions, in effect acting ...
Heraclius (died March 16, 455) was an influential eunuch of the Western Roman Emperor Valentinian III.. Heraclius was a eunuch [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] and the primicerius ...
The archigallus was a Roman citizen who was also employed by the Roman State and therefore walked a narrow line: preserving cult traditions while not violating Roman religious prohibitions. Some argue that the archigallus was never a eunuch, as all citizens of Rome were forbidden from eviratio . [11] (This prohibition suggests that the original ...
In the Western Roman Empire, the post continued in existence until its fall, and was also used in the court of the Ostrogoth king Theodoric the Great, where it was held by a Goth, Triwila. In the mid-6th century, however, the supervision of the Cappadocian estates was entrusted to a separate official in charge of the imperial patrimony, [ 4 ...
Eutropius was born in one of the Roman provinces of the Middle East, either Assyria or on the border of Armenia. [1] According to Honorius' court poet Claudian, who composed a satirical invective against Eutropius due to the latter's hostility to Claudian's patron, Stilicho, [2] Eutropius served successively as a catamite, pimp, and body-servant to various Roman soldiers and nobles, before ...
Pages in category "Ancient Roman eunuchs" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. * Galli; E.
Cubicularius, Hellenized as koubikoularios (Greek: κουβικουλάριος), was a title used for the eunuch chamberlains of the imperial palace in the later Roman Empire and in the Byzantine Empire. The feminine version, used for the ladies-in-waiting of the empresses, was koubikoularia (κουβικουλαρία).
Stewart, Michael Edward: "The Andreios Eunuch-Commander Narses: Sign of a Decoupling of Martial Virtues and Hegemonic Masculinity in the early Byzantine Empire?" Cerae 2 (2015), 1–25. Stewart, Michael Edward: "Breaking Down Barriers: Eunuchs in Italy, 400–625." In: Byzantine Culture in Translation, edited by Amelia Brown and Bronwen Neil ...