4th century AD) was a wealthy Greek rhetor who was a close friend of Libanius[4] and the Roman emperor Julian.
[1] Seleucus was a Greek nobleman who was the son of the wealthy Cretan Flavius Ablabius,[2] by an unnamed woman.
[5] His family was connected to the ruling Constantinian dynasty of the Roman Empire as his father served Constantine I. Ablabius was one of the most important senators of Constantinople;[6] who held the praetorian prefecture of the East from 329 to 337/338 and served as consul in 331,[7] who was active in public posts in both East and West.
Seleucus knew Julian since his student days[1] as his friendship with the nephew of Constantine I and the Rhetor, historian Libanius went back to the early 350s.
[2] Although a Christian by birth, Seleucus became a zealous pagan[2] of the ancient Greek religion who was a learned person.