Constantine

Part of Life of Caesar

The Milvian Bridge in fifty-six minutes: how Maxentius came to fight outside his own walls with a river at his back, and lost an empire in an afternoon.

Part of Roman Emperors: Totalus Rankium

An hour and three quarters on the emperor with the most myth attached, and the show scores him against the myth. The conversion, the new capital and the sons all get weighed, and the number at the end is defended.

Part of Lost Roman Heroes · Matteo and Matthew Storm, 101 episodes

Part of Lost Roman Heroes · Matteo and Matthew Storm, 101 episodes

Part of Lost Roman Heroes · Matteo and Matthew Storm, 101 episodes

Part of Ithaca Bound · Andrew Schiestel on the Mediterranean, 2021 to 2022; only the Roman episodes are indexed

Part of Ithaca Bound · Andrew Schiestel on the Mediterranean, 2021 to 2022; only the Roman episodes are indexed

Part of The Ancients

With David Potter

Milvian Bridge, the sign he described differently to different audiences, and a deathbed baptism. Whether he was convinced or calculating is an argument that will outlive all of us, and the episode does not pretend otherwise.

Part of Lost Roman Heroes · Matteo and Matthew Storm, 101 episodes

Part of The Ancients

Forty-nine minutes on Constantine's climb from York in 306 to sole rule, and on how much of the Christian account of it comes from writers who needed him to be a convert.

Part of Ithaca Bound · Andrew Schiestel on the Mediterranean, 2021 to 2022; only the Roman episodes are indexed

Part of The Pax Romana Podcast

The purge of 337, in which the army killed most of the extended family and left the three sons in charge. Twenty-five minutes on a succession settled with knives.

Part of The Pax Romana Podcast

The vision before the Milvian Bridge, the two surviving accounts of it, and the twenty years of policy that followed. Twenty-three minutes on a conversion that is easier to date than to describe.

Part of The Pax Romana Podcast

Twenty-three minutes on AD 330 and the decision to put a second capital on the Bosphorus. Everything else on this page follows from that one act.

Part of Echoes of Empires

Constantine II, Constans and Constantius II, and the twenty-four years in which they fought each other more than anyone else. Twenty-three minutes.

Part of The Pax Romana Podcast

The solidus, struck at seventy-two to the pound and stable for seven hundred years, and the temple treasuries that paid for it. Twenty-one minutes on the coin that outlived the empire that minted it.

Part of The Pax Romana Podcast

Baptised on his deathbed, buried among twelve apostolic tombs, and succeeded by three sons who divided everything. Twenty-one minutes on an ending arranged in advance and still gone wrong.

Part of The Pax Romana Podcast

The moment the succession plan met a son with an army: Constantine is acclaimed at York and the system starts unwinding. Nineteen minutes on how fast it went.

Part of Echoes of Empires

Eighteen minutes on the same turn from the other side: what changed for the churches once the emperor was paying for basilicas and calling councils.

Part of Ancient Rome Live

Nine minutes on the last great bath complex built in Rome, raised on the Quirinal around AD 315 and pulled down in 1605 to clear ground for a cardinal's palace. The drawings made before it went are most of what survives.