In the present work it has been the author's design to describe the remarkable half century from the accession of Diocletian to the death of Constantine in its quality as a period of transition. What was intended was not a history of the life and reign of Constantine, nor yet an encyclopedia of all worth-while information pertaining to this period. Rather were the significant and essential characteristics of the contemporary world to be outlined and shaped into a perspicuous sketch of the whole.
The Age of Constantine the Great
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"This is a book no thoughtful person can afford to miss. . . . Not only does it clarify the deeds and misdeeds of great men and the mystical impulses which spurred them, almost in the same breath, to incomparable acts of piety and dreadfulness, it is a touchstone to an art and literature which transmitted classical antiquity to Christian Europe." --Saturday Review "Here is something for one's bookcase that invites being taken down year after year and reread."--Christian Science Monitor "Written in the nineteenth century, it is now offered . . . in an admirable translation." --New York TimesTable of Contents
Translator's Foreword
Preface to the First Edition
Preface to the Second Edition
I. The Imperial Power in the Third Century
II. Diocletian : His System of Adoptions and His Reign
III. Individual Provinces and Neighboring Countries: The West
IV. Individual Provinces and Neighboring Countries: The East
V. Paganism : Intermingling of Gods
VI. Immortality and Its Mysteries : The Daimonization of Paganism
VII. Senescence of Ancient Life and Its Culture
VIII. The Persecution of Christians : Constantine and the Succession
IX. Constantine and the Church
X. Court, Administration, and Army : Constantinople, Rome, Athens, and Jerusalem
Addenda et Corrigenda
On the Ancient Sources
Chronology of the Emperors
Index