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<p>[QUOTE="posnerfan_48, post: 4525191, member: 111645"]I only have a few common Constantines myself. But I can recommend David Potter's "Constantine The Emperor," an excellent scholarly treatment of Constantine's life. Potter tries very hard to recover the historical Constantine through contemporaneous materials like legal petitions to the Constantine and panegyrics celebrating his accomplishments. One particularly fascinating argument is that there is no contemporaneous account of Constantine witnessing the cross or chi-rho in his dream, all accounts were written after the fact. More fascinating is the argument that the chi-rho painted on his shields could have stood for Christ (Christos) or the greek word for "luck."[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="posnerfan_48, post: 4525191, member: 111645"]I only have a few common Constantines myself. But I can recommend David Potter's "Constantine The Emperor," an excellent scholarly treatment of Constantine's life. Potter tries very hard to recover the historical Constantine through contemporaneous materials like legal petitions to the Constantine and panegyrics celebrating his accomplishments. One particularly fascinating argument is that there is no contemporaneous account of Constantine witnessing the cross or chi-rho in his dream, all accounts were written after the fact. More fascinating is the argument that the chi-rho painted on his shields could have stood for Christ (Christos) or the greek word for "luck."[/QUOTE]
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