From Constantine to Julian: Pagan and Byzantine Views

Samuel N. C. Lieu is Professor of Ancient History at Macquarie University, New South Wales, Australia. Dominic Montserrat is Lecturer in Classics at the University of Warwick.

• Introduction: Pagan and Byzantine historical writing on the reign of Constantine, Sam Lieu 1 The origin of Constantine: The Anonymus Valesianus pars prior (Origo Constantini) 2 Constantine’s ‘pagan vision’: The anonymous panegyric on Constantine (310), Pan. Lat. VII(6) 3 Constantine Byzantinus: The anonymous Life of Constantine (BHG 364) 4 The sons of Constantine: Libanius, Oratio LIX (Royal Discourse upon Constantius and Constans) 5 From Constantine to Julian: [John the Monk], Artemii passio (The Ordeal of Artemius, BHG 170–71c, CPG 8082

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