Writings
Eudokia compiled a dictionary of history and mythology, which she called Ἰωνιά, i.e. Collection or bed of Violets. It is prefaced by an address to her husband Romanos Diogenes, in which she describes the work as "a collection of genealogies of gods, heroes, and heroines, of their metamorphoses, and of the fables and stories respecting them found in the ancients; containing also notices of various philosophers." The sources from which the work was compiled are in a great degree the same as those used in the Suda.
The historian Nicephorus Gregoras, a century later, described Eudokia as a "second Hypatia".
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