Hypatia V

Continued from Part IV

The Mean Streets of Old Alexandria: Part V
After Graduation: The Calm Before the Storm

AD 395.  The Augustus Theodosius dies.  He has already appointed his two sons as Augusti to succeed him: Honorius in the West; Arcadius (left) in the East.  No one realizes it quite yet; but the Empire will never again be united. 

AD 395/6.  Synesius returns home.  The next year, he is part of the Pentapolitan embassy to Constantinople.  While in the capital, he is baptized.&nbsp...