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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;johnmilton, post: 4658918, member: 101855&quot;]I have been using the &quot;Wild Winds&quot; site with great success to attribute my Roman imperial coins. I was surprised to read this about the emperor Constantine I (a.k.a. &quot;The Great&quot;).</p><p><br /></p><p><i>Constantine: Caesar 306-307 AD; Filius Augustorum 307-309 AD; Augustus 309-337 AD. A vain, effeminate man who loved to adorn his body and the full length of his arms, with jewellery. He executed his son Crispus on trumped-up charges of incest and boiled his own wife, Fausta, to death. He robbed Rome of most of its treasures and moved them to his new, self-named capital city of Constantinople where they were lost or destroyed when that city fell to the Muslims. In AD 330 he erected in the forum of Constantinople a huge, gilded statue of Sol which he had stolen from the temple in Heliopolis, Syria. The head of Sol was changed to resemble Constantine and inscribed &quot;Constantino solis instar fulgenti&quot;, and citizens were forced to worship him as the sun-god. (From the French translation of a late 4th c. Latin text)</i></p><p><br /></p><p>Most sources paint Constantine in a much more positive light. Do the people at &quot;Wild Winds&quot; have something against Constantine, or is this a bit of overstatement or fiction?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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