Zeno

Zeno (c. 425–491), born Tarasicodissa in Isauria, was Eastern Roman emperor in 474–475 and again from 476. In 466 he married Leo I's daughter Ariadne; their son Leo II made him emperor but died within months. Driven out by Basiliscus in 475, he retook Constantinople in 476 after the general Illus defected.

Odoacer deposed Romulus Augustulus, sending the Western regalia to Zeno and gaining recognition in Italy. Zeno directed Theodoric the Great against Odoacer, and his 482 Henotikon failed to heal the Chalcedonian rift, provoking the Acacian schism. He died in April 491; Ariadne then chose Anastasius I.