Theodosius

This database entry collects letters addressed to a recipient named Theodosius across three very different collections - Leo the Great (Latin, mid-5th century), Cassiodorus (Latin, early-6th-century Ostrogothic Italy), and Isidore of Pelusium (Greek, early-5th-century Egypt) - and these are almost certainly not the same person, since 'Theodosius' was an exceedingly common name in late antiquity (borne by emperors, bishops, monks, and officials alike). No single, securely attested individual can be reconstructed from this merged record. The Theodosius addressed by Isidore of Pelusium would have been a correspondent in the Egyptian/Alexandrian sphere, while the recipients in the Cassiodorus and Leo material belong to 5th-6th century Italy; in the Cassiodorus corpus a Theodosius would typically be an official or landholder receiving an administrative letter from the Ostrogothic court at Ravenna. Beyond these correspondences the figure (or figures) is otherwise little attested, and no specific dates, offices, or biography can be assigned with confidence.