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4 days ago · The attic of the arch features an inscription in Latin, dedicating the monument to Constantine's victory. Sculptures and Reliefs. The Arch of Constantine is adorned with numerous sculptures and reliefs, many of which were repurposed from earlier monuments. These artworks add to the arch's historical significance.
19 hours ago · Some historians argue the texts mean “the coldness of poison.”. The fact is that the young man died of poisoning due to the orders of his father. A few months later, Fausta was also executed (probably in Rome). They locked her in a bath and gradually raised the temperature until Constantine’s wife died of suffocation.
5 days ago · Constantinople was declared a co-capital at a time when the Roman Empire was on the verge of collapse and suddenly became the most important city of the empire. Constantine the Great saw a potential in Byzantium, an ancient Greek city, and rebuilt it between 324 and 330, turning it into a “New Rome”.
5 days ago · They present the rise of Christianity in terms of conquest which had taken place in Heaven where the Christian God had defeated the pagan gods. Fourth century Christian writers depict Constantine's conversion as proof of that defeat, and Christian writings are filled with proclaiming their heavenly "triumph".
4 days ago · Constantine erected large monuments to his rule, most notably the Arch of Constantine in Rome, but he also portrayed his religious sentiments and celebrated his reign in smaller ways, through coins and portraits. This is a copper alloy coin, minted in Constantinople in 327, the type of coin that ordinary people would have used for business ...
5 days ago · For example, in 341, Constantine's son Constantius II enacted legislation forbidding pagan sacrifices in Roman Italy. In 356, he issued two more laws forbidding sacrifice and the worship of images, making them capital crimes , as well as ordering the closing of all temples.
1 day ago · In order to keep the Byzantine Empire alive as the Ottoman Empire was expanding, the Byzantine emperor and Constantine’s grandfather John V Palaiologos (r. 1341-1391) submitted to the Ottomans sultan Murad I (r. 1362-1389) as a vassal thus making the Byzantine emperor have to follow every order his overlord, the Ottoman sultan gave. John V ...
