Ariadne

Ariadne (c. 450–515) was a daughter of Emperor Leo I and Verina. In 467 she married the Isaurian officer Tarasicodissa, renamed Zeno; their son Leo II was born that year. After Leo I died in 474, she and Verina had the child emperor crown Zeno co-emperor, and when Leo II died that November Zeno became sole emperor with Ariadne as his empress.

On Zeno's death in 491 she chose the silentiary Anastasius and married him, securing the throne for Anastasius I. She died in 515 and is venerated as an Orthodox saint on 22 August.