⋙ Libro Constantine Roman Emperor A Brief Biography Annotated eBook Henry Stuart Jones

Constantine Roman Emperor A Brief Biography Annotated eBook Henry Stuart Jones

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Originally published in 1911 in “Encyclopedia Britannica,” this edition, equivalent in length to a physical book of approximately 16 pages, describes the life and reign of Roman emperor Constantine I (“Constantine the Great”), who made Christianity the Roman Empire’s state religion.

Includes supplemental material

•A Brief Summary of the Life of Constantine
•About Constantinople

Sample passage
Thus Constantine became undisputed master of Rome and the West, and Christianity, although not as yet adopted as the official religion, secured by the edict of Milan toleration throughout the Empire. This edict was the result of a conference between Constantine and Licinius in 313 at Milan, where the marriage of the latter with Constantia took place. Constantine was forced to recognize Licinius’s natural son as his heir. In the course of the same year Licinius defeated Maximinus Daia, who perished at Tarsus by his own hand. In 314 war broke out between the two Augusti, owing, as we are told, to the treachery of Bassianus, the husband of Constantine’s sister Anastasia, for whom he had claimed the rank of Caesar. After two hard-won victories Constantine made peace, Illyricum and Greece being added to his dominions. Constantine and Licinius held the consulship in 315, in which year the former celebrated his decennalia, and on March 1, 317, Constantine’s two sons and Licinius’s bastard were proclaimed Caesars.

About the author
Henry Stuart Jones (1867-1939), a classical scholar, was Professor of Ancient History at Trinity College, Oxford, and Director of the British School at Rome. Other works include “Select Passages from Ancient Writers Illustrative of the History of Greek Sculpture,” “Classical Rome,” and “A Catalogue of the Ancient Sculptures Preserved in the Municipal Collections of Rome.”