Eudokia (Εὐδοκία) combines the Greek eu (good) and dokein (to seem) — "goodwill, good favor." **Aelia Eudokia (c. 401-460)** was the Byzantine empress, **wife of Theodosius II** — born a pagan daughter of an Athenian philosopher. **A celebrated Christian poet**, she rewrote Homer's verses into a Greek life of Christ.
Multiple Byzantine empresses bore the name; her tomb is in Jerusalem.
Eudokia reduces to eight — the number of Byzantine empress-poet.