Two Portraits of Constantine 1.Constantine according to Eusebius. 2.Constantine according to Zosimus.

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Two Portraits of Constantine 1.Constantine according to Eusebius. 2.Constantine according to Zosimus.

Diocletian’s tetrarchy André Thevet The Tetrarchs. Corner of San Marco, Venice.

Eusebius of Caesarea ( ) Bishop of Caesarea in Palestine Follower of Origen Wrote the first history of the Church Knew Constantine personally His portrait of the first Christian emperor

Constantine’s dream

Constantine. Follis. Constantinople AD 328

Labarum Coin from the time of Constans ( ) Chi-Ro sign. Detail of 4 th c. sarcophagus

San Vitale, Ravenna

Christ defeating Satan.

Two religions combined: Emperor Valens with the Labarum & the statue of Nike (364-7 AD)

Emperor Valentinian I ( ) holds labarum. 4 th c. coin (imitation).

Constantine defeated Maxentius here. Milvian bridge near Rome

Maxentius (the bad guy)

Maxentius: Roma in temple. AD

Emperor Constantine the Great (d. 337)

Constantine’s Arch in Rome (312-15).

History repeats itself…

Constantine as Invincible Sun

Constantine’s ‘pagan vision’

Vagueness of Civil Religion

History as remembered or invented…

Timeline The Great Persecution started by Diocletian 312 Constantine defeats Maxentius; beginning of Constantine’s conversion 313 Edict of Milan 324 Constantine defeats Licinius and becomes sole emperor 325 Council of Nicaea 337 Constantine dies; empire is inherited by his two surviving sons

Constantine & his four sons