Anthemius Isidorus

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Flavius Anthemius Isidorus (Greek: Άνθέμιος Ίσίδωρος; fl. 410–436) was a high-ranking official in the Eastern Roman Empire and the maternal uncle of Western Emperor Anthemius. He came from Egypt and was the son of Anthemius, who was the East’s praetorian prefect (405–414) and consul in 405; this powerful father helped Isidorus advance. He likely had a son, Anthemius Isidorus Theofilus, who governed Arcadia Aegypti in 434.

Isidorus held several important offices. He was Proconsul of Asia sometime between 405 and 410. He served as urban prefect of Constantinople from September 4, 410, to October 29, 412, and was ordered to finish the Baths of Honorius and build a front portico. His rise was helped by his influential father. He later became praetorian prefect of Illyricum in 424, and then praetorian prefect of the East from January 435 to August 436. He supplied Ephesus during a famine, for which the city honored him with an inscription, and he received two letters from Isidore of Pelusium. In 436 he was appointed consul prior. Isidorus died before 446/447.