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In popular culture * Galla Placidia is represented in the BBC 's Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire by Natasha Berrero * Spanish musician Jaume Pahissa wrote the opera Galla Placídia in 1913.
Oost, Galla Placidia Augusta, pp. 157f Both the Empress Galla Placidia and her husband Constantius III favored Eulalius, who had been elected first.
After some skirmishing, Placidia and Aetius came to an agreement that established the political landscape of the Western Roman Empire for the next thirty years.
Another possibility is that Olybrius and Placidia were engaged in 455, and only after Gaiseric freed her from his possession in the early 460s were they at last married.
As for Galla Placidia, as Ataulf's widow, she was "treated with cruel and wanton insult" by being forced to walk more than twelve miles on foot among the crowd of captives driven ahead of the mounted Sigeric.
He had been, he says, "personally affected by the figure of Galla Placidia" and goes on to say: "Her tomb seemed to me a final legacy through which I might reach her personality.
Oost mentions this possibility in his book Galla Placidia Augusta.
Placidia continued to act as regent until 437, though her direct influence over decisions was diminished.
Placidia had personally written to the African bishops, summoning them to the second synod.
Placidia was returned to Honorius as part of the peace treaty.
Placidia was the only child who survived to adulthood and later became an Empress.
Prior to the fall of Rome, Placidia was captured by Alaric.
Rise of Aetius With the generals loyal to her having either died or defected to Aetius, Placidia acknowledged the inevitable: Aetius was recalled from exile in 433 and given the titles "magister militum" and "Patrician".
Serena was a first cousin of Arcadius, Honorius and Placidia.
Stewart Oost, Galla Placidia Augusta: A biographical essay (Chicago: University Press, 1968), pp. 156f Boniface's partisans did not let the matter rest there and sent a petition to Emperor Honorius alleging irregularities in the election of Eulalius.
Therefore, Gaiseric freed Licinia Eudoxia (fulfilling Daniel's prophesy) and her daughter Placidia (Olybrius' wife), but he did not cease his raids on Italy's coasts.
They traveled to Carthage at Placidia's behest to intercede with him, and he showed them the letter from Aetius.
This younger Juliana married another Anastasius and was mother of Areobindus, Placidia, and a younger Proba.
When Serena was accused of conspiring with Alaric, "the whole senate therefore, with Placidia, uterine sister to the emperor, thought it proper that she should suffer death".
When Valentinian discovered the plan, only the influence of Placidia persuaded him not to kill Honoria.