Falk’s Reviews > Constantine the Great: The Man and His Times > Status Update

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.

"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