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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2725345, member: 19463&quot;]If we accept that Fausta&#039;s lie resulted in the killing, I doubt Constantine even felt he had been justified killing Crispus but killing Fausta was a no brainer.&nbsp; He could have killed her sons and not been looked down upon any more by history.&nbsp; Killing Licinius II was also a side dish.&nbsp; Perhaps we can understand why, considering the theology of the day, Constantine delayed his baptism until the last minute possible.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Those who watch &#039;Game of Thrones&#039; have to realize that real history was at least as brutal.&nbsp; Had Fausta not been killed, I wonder when she would have gone after Constantine.&nbsp; Fausta was the daughter of Maximianus and sister of Maxentius.&nbsp; If there ever was a worse way of picking a spouse, I&#039;m not sure what it was.&nbsp; We will never know the truth of history when the books were all written by people who loved or hated the emperor.&nbsp; Even today it is hard to find anything approaching unbiased accounts until everyone who knew the subject and their children have died.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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