Anastasia was a daughter of Roman Emperor Constantius Chlorus and Flavia Maximiana Theodora, and half sister of Emperor Constantine I. She was married to a senator, Bassianus, who was found to be plotting against Constantine and executed in the year 316 CE. After Bassianus' death, Anastasia largely disappears from the record, although she later married a senator, Flavius Optatus.Gibbon, Edward (1776) The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, ch. 18 (London: Folio Society, 2009 ed., vol. 2, p. 246). The public baths at Constantinople may he been named after her, though this is unclear. The name Anastasia () may indicate a sympathy on her father's part towards Christian culture.
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