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<p>[QUOTE="Victor_Clark, post: 4165620, member: 10613"]this topic made me reread the panegyric from 310 and the footnote for the vision from Apollo --</p><p><br /></p><p>"For you saw, I believe, O Constantine, your Apollo, accompanied by Victory, offering you laurel wreaths, each one of which carries a portent of thirty years."</p><p><br /></p><p>from footnote #92 -- one of the biggest footnotes ever</p><p><br /></p><p>it talks about Constantine wanting to challenge the old tetrarchic Hercules. "Support for this interpretation is sought in conage, where Sol Invictus suddenly becomes very prominent (although Mars is regular as well); a fundamental change in Constantine's coin types can be observed precisely in 310"</p><p><br /></p><p>Now you have to decide why the panegyricist said the stuff about Apollo, did it actually happen...did Constantine talk with him beforehand and tell him what to say.</p><p><br /></p><p>Some theories are that it was a political ploy and at this point, we will never be able to actually know Constantine's mind -- "What religious significance...the vision had for Constantine is impossible to gauge."</p><p><br /></p><p>see <b>Nixon, C. E. V</b>., and <b>Barbara Saylor Rodgers</b>, eds. <i>In Praise of Later Roman Emperors: The Panegyrici Latini</i>. University of California Press, 1994. pp 248- 250</p><p><br /></p><p>the footnote gives more literature to dive into.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Victor_Clark, post: 4165620, member: 10613"]this topic made me reread the panegyric from 310 and the footnote for the vision from Apollo -- "For you saw, I believe, O Constantine, your Apollo, accompanied by Victory, offering you laurel wreaths, each one of which carries a portent of thirty years." from footnote #92 -- one of the biggest footnotes ever it talks about Constantine wanting to challenge the old tetrarchic Hercules. "Support for this interpretation is sought in conage, where Sol Invictus suddenly becomes very prominent (although Mars is regular as well); a fundamental change in Constantine's coin types can be observed precisely in 310" Now you have to decide why the panegyricist said the stuff about Apollo, did it actually happen...did Constantine talk with him beforehand and tell him what to say. Some theories are that it was a political ploy and at this point, we will never be able to actually know Constantine's mind -- "What religious significance...the vision had for Constantine is impossible to gauge." see [B]Nixon, C. E. V[/B]., and [B]Barbara Saylor Rodgers[/B], eds. [I]In Praise of Later Roman Emperors: The Panegyrici Latini[/I]. University of California Press, 1994. pp 248- 250 the footnote gives more literature to dive into.[/QUOTE]
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