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Although Grant duly notes in the first chapter (titled ‘The Souces’) that Eusebius was a “depressingly unobjective historian” and also that he “falsified the emperor into a mere sanctimonious devotee, which he was not” - he still quotes Eusebius an awful lot – and relatively often uncritically. I’m not sure what to make of this book. Grant, oddly, seems somehow divided against himself.
— Jul 31, 2018 05:11PM
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is on page 93 of 279
"It is a curious paradox that this emperor who so loudly claimed to have suppressed the ‘barbarians’ did more than anyone else to advance the already existing tendency to appoint German generals in the Roman army and to strengthen it by the addition of numerous German soldiers." pp. 68-9
— Jul 28, 2018 03:33PM
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Jul 29, 2018 05:29PM
This time it took me a long while to get used to his writing style – e.g. the many parentheses. I can’t remember that I experienced the same with the other book of his I read some years ago. Anyway, I struggled through the Civil Wars with those many Augustuses and Caesars, and wondered whether I should rather have picked up Ramsay MacMullen’s bio, which he quotes regularly. After about 50 pages the book thankfully picked up: the focus is mainly on Constantine, the writing has gotten a lot better and I am enjoying the read.
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