The Long Shadow of Constantine
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9328889 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kate Cooper (0000-0002-8216-5567) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 104 |
| Pages | 226-238 |
| Publication date | 2014-09-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Roman Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0075-4358 • E-ISSN: 1753-528X |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0075435814001142 |
| OpenAlex | W1999844478 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 28 |
The fifth-century Christian writer Sozomen of Constantinople preserves a story told by certain pagans about the philosopher Sopater of Apamea, whom the emperor Constantine put to death in a.d. 333 on the advice of the Christian Flavius Ablabius, then Praetorian Prefect of the East. Constantine had consulted the philosopher — so the story goes — in an attempt to redress his guilt at having ordered the murder of some of his nearest relations, among them his son Crispus. But Sopater replied that such moral defilement could admit of no purification. Afterwards, on meeting some Christian bishops, Constantine was delighted to learn that the sins of those who truly repented could be washed away in Christian baptism. It was this that led him to adopt the faith, and to encourage his subjects to do the same
Ancient history · Art · Baptism · Bishops · Emperor · Faith · Literature · Political science · Psychoanalysis · Redress · Shadow (psychology · Theology · Byzantine Studies and History · Classical Antiquity Studies · Classical Studies and Legal History · Classics · History · Law · Philosophy · Psychology
The conflict between paganism and Christianity in the fourth century
Augustine of Hippo
The Modern Origins of the Early Middle Ages
Persecution and Toleration
Introducing Robert Markus
Religious Toleration in Classical Antiquity
Peter Brown and the Shadow of Constantine
Religious Dissent in the Later Roman Empire
Visions of Constantine
The Date and Identity of Macrobius
A New Document of the Last Pagan Revival in the West, 393–394 A.D
Statistics and the Conversion of the Roman Aristocracy
Agrarian Change in Late Antiquity Gold, Labour, and Aristocratic Dominance
"A Hall for Hercules at Ostia and a Farewell to the Late Antique "Pagan Revival
Encore une fois
The Later Roman Empire
The Cult of the Saints
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,17 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2020 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |