Galla Placidia - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

  • Galla Placidia is represented in the BBC's Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire by Natasha Berrero
  • Spanish musician Jaume Pahissa wrote the opera Gal·la Placídia in 1913.
  • Galla Placidia is played by Alice Krige in the 2001 American TV Miniseries Attila
Royal titles
Preceded by
Thermantia
Western Roman Empress consort
421
Succeeded by
Licinia Eudoxia
Preceded by
Justina
Empress-Mother of the Western Roman Empire
September 2, 421 – November 27, 450
Succeeded by
None

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