part of the Santi Quattro Coronati Basilica in Rome. The fresco is one of a series, dating from the 13th century, based on the legends that had sprung up about the “Donation of Constantine ...

On that day, Constantine the Great, fighting beneath Christian banners, defeated Maxentius, winning control of the western half of the Roman Empire. The day before, Constantine had a vision.

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For close to a decade, the Department of Classics at the University of Colorado has conducted summer excavations and student field training at the Villa of Maxentius, a vast, tripartite complex ...

In 306, Constantine was leading Roman troops in Britain—then part of the Roman Empire—when his military declared him their emperor. His brother-in-law, Maxentius, also declared himself the ...

Constantine was the first Emperor to allow Christians to worshop freely in the Roman Empire.This is the ... eve of battle with a competing Emperor, Maxentius. Constantine was told in a dream ...

Constantine marched against him anyway. Maxentius had the larger army and came out of Rome to challenge Constantine at the Milvian bridge. In AD 293, the emperor Diocletian proposed to end the ...

The Battle of the Milvian Bridge occurred between Roman Emperors Constantine I and Maxentius in a civil war on October 28, 312 AD. Engraving published 1882. Copyright ...

Voice 1: Emperor Constantine was a ruler from the fourth century who embraced Christianity and helped spread the faith throughout the Roman Empire. Now, he has a reconstructed statue befitting his ...