Basiliscus being forced into the cistern. Flavius Basiliscus, ? - c. 475. Eastern Roman Emperor. After Flavius Zeno captured Constantinople, Basiliscus and his family were captured, sent to Cappadocia and confined in a cistern where they died. After a 19th century work by Peter Geiger.

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