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english name	Baths of Anastasia
turkish name	-
original name	Thermae Anastasianae, αἱ Ἀναστασιαναί
ottoman name	-
events	Construction 364 - 378
event persons	Valens - Founder (364-378)
purposes	Bathing (public)
still exists	No
type	Bath
location	-
description	Baths in Region IX. Due to its high altitude location, the Baths of Anastasiae were presumably supplied by the Valens Waterway (alongside with the cistern of Modestus, the Thermae Constantinianae and the Great Nymphaeum) (Crow et al., 2008, p. 13). They were built by Emperor Valens (r. 364-378), who named them after his daughter Anastasia (Crow et al., 2008, p. 127). When Procopius revolted during Valens' reign in 365, Ammianus Marcellinus reports that the two legions he bribed - Legio Divitensis and Tungrica - were stationed there.
comments	-
systems	Valens Waterway
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Literature of related events

#	Event	Code	Type	Page	Excerpt
1	Construction: 364	Chronicon Paschale 641 Whitby	Primary source	45	(Dindorf 556) This Valens the brother of Valentinian was Arian, and had as wife Domnica, by whom he had a son, Galates by name, and two daughters, Anastasia and Carosa, and he founded two baths in Constantinople, the Anastasianae and the Carosianae, in accordance with their names.
2	Construction: 364	Crow, Bardill & Bayliss 2008	Secundary literature	10
3	Construction: 364	Marcellinus 380 Rolfe	Primary source	605-607	(Ammianus Marcellinus 26.6.14) So, as had been agreed, as soon as the sun's rays illumined the day, the aforesaid Procopius, full of conflicting emotions, went to the Anastasian Baths, named for the sister of Constantine, where he knew that the legions had their quarters. The 'sister of Constantine' was Anastasia, wife of Bassianus Caesar. According to other sources the Anastasian baths were named from a daughter of Valens.
4	Construction: 364	Notitia Urbis Constantinopolitanae 425	Primary source	229	First Region ... Contains in it: ... Arcadianae baths ... Fifteen private baths ... Second Region ... Contains in it: ... Baths of Zeuxippus ... Thirteen private baths ... Third Region ... Contains in it: ... Eleven private baths Fourth Region ... Contains in it: ... Nymphaeum ... Seven private baths Fifth Region ... Contains in it: ... Honorianae baths ... Theodosian cistern ... Eudociane baths ... Nymphaeum ... Eleven private baths Sixth Region ... Contains in it: ... Nine private baths Seventh region ... Contains in it: ... Carosianae baths ... Eleven private baths Eighth Region ... Contains in it: ... Ten private baths Ninth Region ... Contains in it: ... Anastasianae baths ... Fifteen private baths Tenth Region ... Contains in it: ... Constantinianae baths ... Large nymphaeum ... (Twenty-two?) private baths Eleventh Region ... Contains in it: ... Arcadiaca cistern. Modestiaca cistern ... Fourteen private baths Twelfth Region ... Contains in it: ... Five private baths Thirteenth Region (Sycae) ... Contains in it: ... Honorianae baths ... Five private baths Fourteenth Region (Rhegium?) ... Contains in it: ... Nymphaeum. Baths ... Five private baths Collection of the city ... The Constantinopolitan city therefore has: ... Eight baths (the regional list gives nine) ... Four cisterns (only three were listed) ... Four Nymphaea (correct) ... One hundred and fifty-three private baths (if the total is correct, it suggests that there were twenty-two in the tenth region). Comment by Crow 2008: See the discussion and translation into German of the Notitia by Berger (1997a).
5	Construction: 364	Socrates 439	Primary source	99	(Church History 4.9) But the emperor's (Valens') displeasure against this sect (the Novatians) was moderated by the efforts of a pious and eloquent man named Marcian, who had formerly been in military service at the imperial palace, but was at that time a presbyter in the Novatian church, and taught Anastasia and Carosa, the emperor's daughters, grammar; from the former of whom the public baths yet standing, which Valens erected at Constantinople, were named.
6	Construction: 364	Sozomen 443	Primary source	352	(Church History 6.9) Not long after his banishment, he (Agelius the Novatian) was recalled, received the churches under him, and boldly convened churches through the influence of Marcian, a man of extraordinary virtue and eloquence, who had formerly been enrolled among the troops of the palace, but at this period was a presbyter of the Novatian heresy, and the teacher of grammar to Anastasia and Carosa, the daughters of the emperor. There are still baths at Constantinople which bear the names of these princesses.
7	Construction: 364	Theophanes 814	Primary source	45	(Chronicle AM 5860) The impious Valens had two daughters, Anastasia and Carosa, in whose names he built two baths and the aqueduct which even now is known as Valentinianic.