أريادني : تعاظم الدور السياسي للأوغسطة في العصر البيزنطي الباكر

الملخص EN

This research aims to shed light on an early byzantine empress, which only a very few modern historians have paid attention to, and the talk means “the Empress Ariadne”.

in the researcher's estimation, this empress is a milestone and a turning point in the entire byzantine history; as during her reign all the characteristics of patriarchal ideology were shattered, and the woman in Byzantium became having a decisive supreme word with which the fate of the subjects was determined.

destiny had enabled Ariadne more than once to grant legitimacy to those who ruled the byzantine empire, and she left a distinguished model of the empire's first lady, who did not stop at only being the consort of the emperor, but also became his actual partner in ruling the state, managing it and directing its policies.

what is clear is that Ariadne received great veneration from her contemporaries during her life and continued after her death in an exceptional and rare way that her surviving traces to this day testify, as well as what historical sources inform, and not to mention her clear impact as well on the growing role and stature of empresses who came after her and followed her example in later reigns, holding firmly on to the manifestations of “female Basileia” and the principle of “co-ruling” which they inherited from Ariadne, and as a result the byzantine empire witnessed in the following centuries other great empresses co-ruled the state with their husband emperors in a real partnership, not a symbolic one, and the matter reached its climax at the end of the eighth century and the beginning of the ninth, when a woman became a sole ruler of the byzantine empire.

in treatment of the research topic, the researcher followed the analytical method based on displaying texts and information provided by historical sources and analyzing them in order to get out the best possible outputs and results, and the researcher also took advantage of the recent studies that touched on some aspects of the research topic.

at the conclusion of the research, the researcher was keen to present the most important results that he reached through his study of the subject, as well as displaying his analytical vision of the elements that were included in the research.