Athenais

Athenais, or Eudoxia, the learned daughter of Leontius, an Athenian physicist. Her father having bequeathed his fortune to his two sons and left her penniless, she went to Constantinople in order to put her case before Theodosius II. The Emperor's sister, Pulcheria, struck with her beauty and talent, converted her to Christianity and induced Theodosius to marry her. After a time he suspected her of infidelity and divorced her. She spent the rest of her days at Jerusalem, dying there in 460 A.D. She translated the first eight books of the Old Testament into Greek verse, and wrote a poem on the martyrdom of St, Cyprian.