Licinius has built up his army and …
Years: 320 - 320
Licinius has built up his army and accumulated a huge reserve of treasure during the years of uneasy peace between the Roman Empire’s two Augusti.
Having eventually become alienated from the Christians, he initiates a mild form of persecution in about 320, prompting contemporaries to paint the growing conflict between Constantine and his eastern counterpart as a battle between the forces of paganism and Christianity.
Locations
People
Groups
- Polytheism (“paganism”)
- Bithynia et Pontus (Roman province)
- Christians, Early
- Roman Empire: Tetrarchy
Topics
- Portraits, Classical
- Roman art
- Roman Age Optimum
- Late Antiquity
- Civil wars of the Tetrarchy
- Roman Civil War of 314-24
