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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kevin McGonigal, post: 2198959, member: 72790&quot;]It has been said, many times, that history is written by the winners, in this case the Christians. The Christian Church blackened the reputation of those rulers who supported the old gods and opposed the spread of Christianity. It made no difference to the Church Fathers how else they ruled or what secular accomplishments they were responsible for. On the other hand, the same Church overlooked the flaws in emperors who supported the Church. Constantine was a monster in much of his personal life but none of this mattered to the Church Fathers for whom favoring orthodox doctrine trumped all else. Poor Julian (the Apostate) was a decent person and a competent ruler but Church apologists assured that it was his lapsed Christianity that became his most known trait. When it comes to evaluating Roman Emperors as either people or rulers consider the source of the evaluation.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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