Bathanarius

Bathanarius (died 408) was a politician of the Western Roman Empire, comes Africae and brother-in-law of Stilicho.

Life

Bathanarius married a sister of the powerful general Stilicho.^[1] He is attested as comes Africae since 401. In 408, when Stilicho was put to death by order of Emperor Honorius, Bathanarius was executed by imperial order and succeeded by Heraclianus.^[1]

Augustine of Hippo retells a story he had been told by bishop Severus of Milev, who had seen Bathanarius doing a trick with a magnet during a party.^[2]

Notes

1. Zosimus V.37.6.
2. Augustine, Civitas Dei, 21.4.

Sources

• "Bathanarius", Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, Volume 2, Cambridge University Press, 1992, ISBN 0-521-20159-4, p. 221.