Reading List: The Age of Constantine

Gibbon, Edward: Decline and Fall, chapters XIII-25

Burckhardt, Jacob: The Age of Constantine the Great

Marcellinus, Ammianus: History (The Later Roman Empire, Penguin)*

Eusebius: Ecclesiastical History
Life of Constantine
"Oration on Constantine's 30th Anniversary"
"Reply to Hierocles"

Porphyry: "Life of Plotinus"
"Letter to Marcella"*
Fragments of Against the Christians

Iamblichus: On the Mysteries

Julian: "The Caesars"
"Against the Galileans"

Ambrose: De Officiis Ministrorum, On the Duties of the Clergy

Lactantius: The Divine Institutes
On the Deaths of the Persecutors

Basil the Great: On Social Justice (ed. C. Paul Schroeder)
On the Human Condition (tr. Nonna Verna Harrison)

Ephrem the Syrian: Hymns on Paradise