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The Age of Constantine the Great

Translator's Foreword

Preface to 1st Edition

Preface to 2nd Edition

The Imperial Power in the 3rd Century

Diocletian: His System of Adoptions & His Reign

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Individual Provinces & Neighboring Countries: The West

Individual Provinces & Neighboring Countries: The East

Paganism: Intermingling of Gods

Immortality & Its Mysteries: The Daimonization of Paganism

Senescence of Ancient Life & Its Culture

The Persecution of Christians: Constantine & the Succession

Constantine & the Church

Court, Administration & Army: Contantinople, Rome, Athens &

Jerusalem

Addenda et Corrigenda

On the Ancient Sources

Chronology of the Emperors

Index

Themes
Christian
Setting
antiquityRome
Audience
adult
Length
long · 400 pages

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