Table of Contents

1. The Subject and Ancient Sources 2. The Imperial Crisis and Illyrian Emperors 3. The First Tetrarchy and the Caesar's Son 4. The Gallic Emperor and the Dying Persecutors 5. The Italian Campaign and Constantine's Conversion 6. Religious Concerns and Apostolic Rome 7. The Eastern Crusade and the Nicene Council 8. The Dynastic Tragedy and Helena's Pilgrimage 9. Imperial Concerns and Christian Constantinople 10. The Final Campaigns and the Emperor's Heirs 11. The Thirteenth Apostle and the Christian Empire 12. The Legacy and Modern Interpretations

About the Author

Charles Matson Odahl obtained his doctorate in Greek, Roman, and Medieval History from the University of California, San Diego (1976). He has served as Professor of Ancient and Medieval History, and Classical and Patristic Latin at Boise State University in Idaho for over thirty years; and has traveled widely through Europe, the Mediterranean Basin and the Near East, teaching at universities in Britain and France, working at museums and archaeological sites, and directing tour-seminars in Italy, Greece and Turkey. His research specialties are Cicero and the late Roman Republic, early Christianity, and Constantine and the early Byzantine Empire. He has published some forty articles and reviews in scholarly journals, and recent books on Early Christian Latin Literature (Chicago, 1993), Cicero and the Catilinarian Conspiracy (New York and London: Routledge, 2010), and first edition of Constantine and the Christian Empire (London and New York: Routledge, 2004 Hb, 2006 Pb).

Reviews

'A splendid, solid Constantine ... whose many illustrations invite the reader to enter and be carried along with the story.' - Yale University, USA'A splendid volume, an opus praeclare as well as a magnum opus ... the scholarship is impeccable ... The layout, the quality of the photographs and the graphics are all excellent.' - State University of New York, USA'[This] book will undoubtedly remain the standard account of the reign for many years to come.' - University College Cork, Ireland 'Charles Matson Odahl offers a wide-ranging assessment ... [his] perspective in panoramic ... clearly and often engagingly written [the book] offers a splendid account of Constantine and his legacy.' - The Record

'Altogether this is a very good account of one of the greatest of the Roman Emperors.' - The NYMAS Review