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name	Baths of Zeuxippos - Construction
event type	Construction
start date	330
end date	330
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installations	Baths of Zeuxippos
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1	Chronicon Paschale 641 Krausmüller	221	(Dindorf 494-95) And when after many years Severus came from Rome to Byzantium in this year of his reign he saw that the setting of the city was beautiful and he rebuilt the city of Byzos and founded in it the public bath (demosion loutron) named 'Zeuxippos' and there stood in the middle of the Tetrastoon a brazen statue of Helios and underneath it he wrote the name of Helios Zeuxippos. The Thracians call the place 'Helios' whereas the people from the city of Byzantium themselves call the same 'Zeuxippian public bath' after the name that the place had before and they no longer, as the emperor had said, call it after his own name 'Severian'.
2	Hesychius 550	221	(Hesychius 37) When the wrath of Severus had abated they reverted to greater beauty after he had erected for them at great cost a huge bath by the altar of Zeus Hippios, that is, the so-called grove of Herakles (where they say that he tamed the horses of Diomedes and then named the place Zeuxippos). And he sumptuously erected also the place for racecourses that was next to it.
3	Malalas 565	155	(Chronicle 12.20) When Severus came to Byzantion and found that the situation of the city was good, he restored Byzoupolis and built a public Bath known as the Zeuxippon because a bronze statue of Helios (the sun) stood there in the middle of the Tetrastoon. On its base was inscribed the mystic name of the sun, 'To the horse-yoking (Zeuxippos) god', for that is what the Thracians called the sun. So the people of the city of Byzas used to call the public bath Zeuxippon after the original name of the place, and they no longer used the name Severium which the emperor had given it after himself. The emperor Severus added the public bath, which he built, to the Tetrastoon, in the middle of which stood the statue of Helios.
4	Malalas 565	174	(Chronicle 13.8) Likewise he completed the public bath known as the Zeuxippon, and decorated it with columns and marbles of many colours and bronze statues. He had found the public bath unfinished; it had been begun formerly by the emperor Severus.
5	Malalas 565	175	(Chronicle 13.8) On the same day, 11th May, he ordered that the public bath, the Zeuxippon, should be opened near the hippodrome and the Regia and the palace.
6	Parastaseis Syntomoi Chronikai 829	153	(Parastaseis Syntomoi Chronikai 73) The Zeuxippus bath is called Severus, for it was built by Severus (193-211). Together with this he undertook the first foundation of the Hippodrome in a short space of time.
7	Suda 976	221	Severus ... bought houses and gardens from some brothers who were orphans and cut down the trees around the hippodrome and arranged it in the shape that is now seen, having added to it also a bath in the temple of Zeus, which was called 'Zeuxippon'.