Serena (wife of Stilicho)

A resident at the court of Honorius, Serena selected a bride for Claudian, and took care of Honorius' half-sister Galla Placidia.

Zosimus reported that during Theodosius I's visit to Rome in 394, Serena, a Christian, took a necklace from a statue of Rhea Silvia and placed it on her own neck. An old woman, the last of the Vestal Virgins, appeared, rebuking Serena and calling down punishment upon her for her act of impiety. Serena was then subject to dreadful dreams predicting her own untimely death.^[8] Alan Cameron and John Matthews are both skeptical of the entire tale,^[9] believing that Theodosius' reported visit to Rome should be rejected.^[10][11]

Honorius had Stilicho and Eucherius executed in 408. In the following year Serena was falsely accused of conspiring with the Visigoths besieging Rome, and was executed with Galla Placidia's consent.

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