Anastasius and the Roman Empire

Eufamius was a defiant defender of orthodoxy and worked against the compromise set out in the Hanoticon. He had begun private negotiations with the Pope to end the occasion's schism, and further angered the emperor by refusing to return to him the written declaration of orthodoxy he had signed on his ascension. The patriarchs of Jerusalem and Alexandria accused Eufamius of heresy and of supporting the Isorians; at a council in 496 he was deposed. Two years later, in 498, another riot broke out, again instigated by members of the Deems. Once more the troops restored order, punishments were dulled out, and again Anastasius removed the