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Flavius Valerius Aurelius Constantine, one of the most controversial personalities in history, was certainly a great founder: he founded the new capital of the Roman state, a new dynasty, as well as a new religion, which was going to monopolize the religious scene of Late Antiquity. Although in the early stages of his career he got involved in civil wars and interfamilial strives, which ended in bloodbaths, later on he repented and was sanctified by the Christian Church, which he actively protected, bringing her out of illegality. His biographer, Eusebius bishop of Caesarea, brightened up the dark parts and stressed the glorious elements of his personality, and History, which loves the flamboyant personalities, offered him the attribute “the Great”. |
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