Introduction: Pagan and Byzantine historical writing on the reign of Constantine / Sam Lieu -- 1. The origin of Constantine: The Anonymus Valesianus pars prior (Origo Constantini) -- 2. Constantine's 'pagan vision': The anonymous panegyric on Constantine (310), Pan. Lat. VII(6) -- 3. Constantine Byzantinus: The anonymous Life of Constantine (BHG 364) -- 4. The sons of Constantine: Libanius, Oratio LIX (Royal Discourse upon Constantius and Constans) -- 5. From Constantine to Julian: [John the Monk], Artemii passio (The Ordeal of Artemius, BHG 170-71c, CPG 8082)
Summary
Provides students with important source material covering an age of major transition in Europe - the establishment of Rome as a Christian empire. Most of the material was previously unavailable in English
Analysis
Christianity History
Roman Empire
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-273)-and indexes
