Anastasia's Resignation - A Symbol of the Imperial Regime

Anastasia's appeared in the Hippodrome with a most unusual offer. He offered to abdicate, or he would never give them reason to turn on him again. It was a most unusual and surprisingly effective gamble. The emperor didn't shell of his monophysite sympathies despite these riots. Next year another council removed the patriarch of Antioch, and Saveras was appointed in his place.