ABSTRACT

From Constantine to Julian provides students with important source material, covering an age of major transition in Europe; an age which saw the establishment of Rome as a Christian Empire and a period of recidivism under Julian.
Texts included are the anonymous Origo Constantini^; Eumenius, Panegyric of 310; Byzantine life of Constantine; Libanius, oration 59; and the Passion of Artemius. Most of this material has not previously been translated into English: students will now have direct access to the most important sources for the period which is studied on courses in classical antiquity, early medieval Europe and ecclesiastical history.

chapter |38 pages

INTRODUCTION

Pagan and Byzantine historical writing on the reign of Constantine

chapter 1|24 pages

The origin of Constantine: The Anonymus Valesianus pars

The Anonymus Valesianus pars prior

chapter 2|34 pages

CONSTANTINE’S ‘PAGAN VISION’

The anonymous panegyric on Constantine (310), Pan. Lat. VII(6)

chapter 3|50 pages

CONSTANTINE BYZANTINUS

The anonymous Life of Constantine (BHG 364)

chapter 4|63 pages

The sons of Constantine: Libanius, Oratio LIX (Royal Discourse upon Constantius and Constans) 147

Libanius, Oratio LIX (Royal Discourse upon Constantius and Constans)