An Online Encyclopedia of Roman Emperors
Leo II (AD 474)
Hugh Elton
Florida International University
Son of Zeno and Ariadne, born c467. Leo was acclaimed as Caesar by his grandfather Leo I on 25 (?) October 473 and was promoted to Augustus on (or possibly before) Leo's death. After his grandfather's death (18 January 474), he ruled alone for three weeks, then on 9 February had his father Zeno acclaimed as co-Augustus. They ruled jointly until Leo's own death of natural causes on 17 (?) November 474. Coins were issued in Leo's name alone, then jointly with Zeno.
Bibliography
Kent, J.P.C., Roman Imperial Coinage volume 10 (London, 1994), 109-110.
Lippold, A., RE 10 A (1972), 157-160.
Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire, vol. 2, ed. J.R. Martindale (Cambridge, 1980)
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Updated:10 June 1998
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