Eudocia (Εὐδοκία) combines the Greek eu (good) and dokein (to seem). **Born Athenais (c. 400-460) to a pagan Athenian philosopher, she traveled to Constantinople seeking justice in an inheritance dispute** — Pulcheria, taken with her beauty and learning, presented her to Theodosius II, who married her. **An accomplished poet, she composed Homeric *centones* (a Christian gospel narrative in Homeric verses) and other poems** before being exiled to Jerusalem after a court intrigue, where she built churches and patronized scholarship.
Featured in Socrates Scholasticus's *Ecclesiastical History*.
Eudocia reduces to two — the number of poet-empress.