Editing Constantine the Great (section)

====Ancient sources====
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*[[Athanasius]] of Alexandria. ''Apologia contra Arianos'' (''Defence against the Arians'') {{Circa|349}}.
**Atkinson, M., and Archibald Robertson, trans. ''Apologia Contra Arianos''. From ''Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers'', Second Series, Vol. 4. Edited by Philip Schaff and Henry Wace. Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1892. Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight. Online at [http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/2808.htm New Advent]. Retrieved 14 August 2009.
*Athanasius of Alexandria ''Epistola de Decretis Nicaenae Synodi'' (''Letter on the Decrees of the Council of Nicaea'') {{Circa|352}}.
**Newman, John Henry, trans. ''De Decretis''. From ''Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers'', Second Series, Vol. 4. Edited by Philip Schaff and Henry Wace. Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1892. Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight. Online at [http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/2809.htm New Advent]. Retrieved 28 September 2009.
*Athanasius of Alexandria ''Historia Arianorum'' (''History of the Arians'') {{Circa|357}}.
**Atkinson, M., and Archibald Robertson, trans. ''Historia Arianorum''. From ''Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers'', Second Series, Vol. 4. Edited by Philip Schaff and Henry Wace. Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1892. Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight. Online at [http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/2815.htm New Advent]. Retrieved 14 August 2009.
*[[Aurelius Victor|Sextus Aurelius Victor]], ''Liber de Caesaribus'' (''Book on the Caesars'') {{Circa|361}}.
*''Codex Theodosianus'' (''Theodosian Code'') 439.
**Mommsen, T. and Paul M. Meyer, eds. ''Theodosiani libri XVI cum Constitutionibus Sirmondianis et Leges novellae ad Theodosianum pertinentes''<sup>2</sup> (in Latin). Berlin: Weidmann, [1905] 1954. Compiled by Nicholas Palmer, revised by [[Tony Honoré]] for Oxford Text Archive, 1984. Prepared for online use by R.W.B. Salway, 1999. Preface, books 1–8. Online at [https://web.archive.org/web/20090826174516/http://www.ucl.ac.uk/history2/volterra/texts/cthinfo.htm University College London] and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20070312033154/http://webu2.upmf-grenoble.fr/Haiti/Cours/Ak/Constitutiones/codtheod.html University of Grenoble]. Retrieved 25 August 2009.
**Unknown edition (in Latin). Online at [http://ancientrome.ru/ius/library/codex/theod/ AncientRome.ru]. Retrieved 15 August 2009.
*''Codex Justinianeus'' (''Justinianic Code'' or ''Code of Justinian'').
**Scott, Samuel P., trans. ''The Code of Justinian'', in ''The Civil Law''. 17 vols. 1932. Online at the [http://www.constitution.org/sps/sps.htm Constitution Society]. Retrieved 14 August 2009.
** {{cite book |editor1-last=Krueger |editor1-first=Paul |date=1954 |title=Codex Justinianus |language=la |url=http://web.upmf-grenoble.fr/Haiti/Cours/Ak/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120831060912/http://web.upmf-grenoble.fr/Haiti/Cours/Ak/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=31 August 2012 |location=Berlin |publisher=Apud Weidmannos |via=the Internet Archive |access-date=28 September 2009}}
* Constantine the Great, ''Speech to the Assembly of the Saints''.
** [[Klaus Martin Girardet|Girardet, Klaus Martin]] (2013). ''Konstantin, Rede an die Versammlung der Heiligen – Oratio ad sanctorum coetum. Einleitung, griechischer Text, Übersetzung, Kommentar.'' [[Fontes Christiani]] vol. 55. Freiburg: Herder, {{ISBN|978-3-451-30957-1}}.
* Constantine the Great, ''Letters''
** [[Pierre Maraval|Maraval, Pierre]] (2010). ''Constantin, Lettres et discours.'' La roue à livres, volume 57. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, {{ISBN|978-2-251-33958-0}}.
*''[[Epitome de Caesaribus]]'' (''Epitome on the Caesars'') {{Circa|395}}.
**Banchich, Thomas M., trans. ''A Booklet About the Style of Life and the Manners of the Imperatores''. ''Canisius College Translated Texts'' 1. Buffalo, NY: Canisius College, 2009. Online at [http://www.roman-emperors.org/epitome.htm De Imperatoribus Romanis]. Retrieved 15 August 2009.
*{{Lang|la|[[De Rebus Bellicis]]}} (''On Military Matters'') fourth/fifth century.
*[[Eunapius]], ''History from Dexippus'' first edition {{Circa|390}}, second edition {{Circa|415}}. [Fragmentary]
*[[Eusebius of Caesarea]].
**''Historia Ecclesiastica'' (''Church History'') first seven books {{Circa|300}}, eighth and ninth book {{Circa|313}}, tenth book {{Circa|315}}, epilogue {{Circa|325}}.
***Williamson, G.A., trans. ''Church History''. London: Penguin, 1989. {{ISBN|0-14-044535-8}}
***McGiffert, Arthur Cushman, trans. ''Church History''. From ''Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers'', Second Series, Vol. 1. Edited by Philip Schaff and Henry Wace. Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1890. Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight. Online at [http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/2501.htm New Advent]. Retrieved 28 September 2009.
**''Oratio de Laudibus Constantini'' (''Oration in Praise of Constantine'', sometimes the ''Tricennial Oration'') 336.
***Richardson, Ernest Cushing, trans. ''Oration in Praise of Constantine''. From ''Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers'', Second Series, Vol. 1. Edited by Philip Schaff and Henry Wace. Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1890. Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight. Online at [http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/2504.htm New Advent]. Retrieved 16 August 2009.
**''Vita Constantini'' (''The Life of the Blessed Emperor Constantine'') {{Circa|336}}–339.
***Richardson, Ernest Cushing, trans. ''Life of Constantine''. From ''Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers'', Second Series, Vol. 1. Edited by Philip Schaff and Henry Wace. Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1890. Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight. Online at [http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/2502.htm New Advent]. Retrieved 9 June 2009.
***[http://www.evolpub.com/CRE/CREseries.html#CRE8 ''Life of the Blessed Emperor Constantine'']. 2009. Reprint of Bagster edition [1845]. Evolution Publishing. {{ISBN|978-1-889758-93-0}}.
***Cameron, Averil and Stuart Hall, trans. ''[http://archive.eclass.uth.gr/eclass/modules/document/file.php/SEAD260/%CE%95%CF%85%CF%83%CE%AD%CE%B2%CE%B9%CE%BF%CF%82%2C%20Life%20of%20Constantine%20%28trans.%20Averil%20Cameron%20-%20Stuart%20Hall%29.pdf Life of Constantine]''. 1999. Oxford University Press. {{ISBN|0-19-814924-7}}.
*[[Eutropius (historian)|Eutropius]], ''Breviarium ab Urbe Condita'' (''Abbreviated History from the City's Founding'') {{Circa|369}}.
**Watson, John Henry, trans. ''Justin, Cornelius Nepos and Eutropius''. London: George Bell & Sons, 1886. Online at [http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/eutropius_breviarium_2_text.htm Tertullian]. Retrieved 28 September 2009.
*[[Festus (historian)|Rufus Festus]], ''Breviarium Festi'' (''The Abbreviated History of Festus'') {{Circa|370}}.
**Banchich, Thomas M., and Jennifer A. Meka, trans. ''Breviarium of the Accomplishments of the Roman People''. ''Canisius College Translated Texts'' 2. Buffalo, NY: Canisius College, 2001. Online at [http://www.roman-emperors.org/festus.htm De Imperatoribus Romanis]. Retrieved 15 August 2009.
*[[Jerome]], ''[[Chronicon (Jerome)|Chronicon]]'' (''Chronicle'') {{Circa|380}}.
**Pearse, Roger, ''et al.''., trans. ''The Chronicle of St. Jerome'', in ''Early Church Fathers: Additional Texts''. Tertullian, 2005. Online at [http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/jerome_chronicle_00_eintro.htm Tertullian]. Retrieved 14 August 2009.
*[[Jordanes]], ''[[Getica|De origine actibusque Getarum]]'' [''Getica''] (''The Origin and Deeds of the Goths'') {{Circa|551}}.
**[[Charles Christopher Mierow|Mierow, Charles C.]], trans. ''The Origins and Deeds of the Goths''. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1915.
***Online at the [https://www.ucalgary.ca/~vandersp/Courses/texts/jordgeti.html University of Calgary]. Retrieved 28 September 2009.
***''The Gothic History of Jordanes''. 2006. Reprint of 1915 edition. Evolution Publishing. {{ISBN|978-1-889758-77-0}}. [http://www.evolpub.com/CRE/CREseries.html#CRE2 The Christian Roman Empire series]
*[[Lactantius]], ''[[De mortibus persecutorum]]'' (''On the Deaths of the Persecutors'') {{Circa|313–315}}.
**Fletcher, William, trans. ''Of the Manner in Which the Persecutors Died''. From ''Ante-Nicene Fathers'', Vol. 7. Edited by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, and A. Cleveland Coxe. Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1886. Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight. Online at [http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0705.htm New Advent]. Retrieved 9 June 2009.
*[[Libanius]], ''[https://opengreekandlatin.github.io/libanius-dev/ Orationes]'' (''Orations'') {{Circa|362}}–365.
*[[Saint Optatus|Optatus]], ''Libri VII de Schismate Donatistarum'' (''Seven Books on the Schism of the Donatists'') first edition {{Circa|365}}–367, second edition {{Circa|385}}.
**Vassall-Phillips, O.R., trans. ''The Work of St. Optatus Against the Donatists''. London: Longmans, Green, & Co., 1917. Transcribed at The Tertullian Project by Roger Pearse, 2006. Online at [http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/optatus_00_intro.htm Tertullian]. Retrieved 9 June 2009.
**{{cite book |author=Optatus |editor1-last=Edwards |editor1-first=Mark |year=1997 |title=Optatus: Against the Donatists |url=https://archive.org/details/optatusagainstdo0000opta |url-access=registration |translator-last=Edwards |translator-first=Mark |doi=10.3828/978-0-85323-752-5 |doi-broken-date=1 November 2024 |isbn=978-0-85323-752-5}}
*''Origo Constantini Imperiatoris'' (''The Lineage of the Emperor Constantine'') {{Circa|340}}–390.
**Rolfe, J.C., trans. ''Excerpta Valesiana'', in vol. 3 of Rolfe's translation of Ammianus Marcellinus' ''History''. Loeb ed. London: Heinemann, 1952. Online at [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Excerpta_Valesiana/1*.html LacusCurtius]. Retrieved 16 August 2009.
*[[Paulus Orosius|Orosius]], ''[http://attalus.org/info/orosius.html Historiarum Adversum Paganos Libri VII]'' (''Seven Books of History Against the Pagans'') {{Circa|417}}.
*''[[Panegyrici Latini|XII Panegyrici Latini]]'' (''Twelve Latin Panegyircs'') relevant panegyrics dated 289, 291, 297, 298, 307, 310, 311, 313 and 321.
*[[Philostorgius]], ''Historia Ecclesiastica'' (''Church History'') {{Circa|433}}.
**Walford, Edward, trans. ''Epitome of the Ecclesiastical History of Philostorgius, Compiled by Photius, Patriarch of Constantinople''. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1855. Online at [http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/philostorgius.htm Tertullian]. Retrieved 15 August 2009.
*[[Praxagoras of Athens]], ''Historia'' (''History of Constantine the Great'') {{Circa|337}}. [Fragmentary]
*[[Socrates of Constantinople]] (Scholasticus), ''Historia Ecclesiastica'' (''Church History'') {{Circa|443}}.
**Zenos, A.C., trans. ''Ecclesiastical History''. From ''Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers'', Second Series, Vol. 2. Edited by Philip Schaff and Henry Wace. Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1890. Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight. Online at [http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/2601.htm New Advent]. Retrieved 14 August 2009.
*[[Sozomen]], ''Historia Ecclesiastica'' (''Church History'') {{Circa|445}}.
**[[Chester D. Hartranft|Hartranft, Chester D.]] ''Ecclesiastical History''. From ''Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers'', Second Series, Vol. 2. Edited by Philip Schaff and Henry Wace. Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1890. Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight. Online at [http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/2602.htm New Advent]. Retrieved 15 August 2009.
*[[Theodoret]], ''Historia Ecclesiastica'' (''Church History'') {{Circa|448}}.
**Jackson, Blomfield, trans. ''Ecclesiastical History''. From ''Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers'', Second Series, Vol. 3. Edited by Philip Schaff and Henry Wace. Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1892. Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight. Online at [http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/2702.htm New Advent]. Retrieved 15 August 2009.
*[[Zosimus (historian)|Zosimus]], ''Historia Nova'' (''New History'') {{Circa|500}}.
**Unknown, trans. ''The History of Count Zosimus''. London: Green and Champlin, 1814. Online at [http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/zosimus00_intro.htm Tertullian]. Retrieved 15 August 2009.<!-- {{refn|This translation is not very good. The pagination is broken in several places, there are many typographical errors (including several replacements of "Julian" with "Jovian" and "Constantine" with "Constantius"). It is nonetheless the only translation of the ''Historia Nova'' in the public domain.<ref>Roger Pearse, "[http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/zosimus00_intro.htm Preface to the online edition of Zosimus' ''New History'']". 19 November 2002, rev. 20 August 2003. Retrieved 15 August 2009.</ref>|group=notes}}
<ref>This list of primary sources is based principally on the summary in Odahl, 2–11 and further lists in Odahl, 372–76. See also Bruno Bleckmann, "Sources for the History of Constantine" (CC), "Sources for the History of Constantine", in ''The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Constantine'', trans. Noel Lenski, ed. Noel Lenski (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006), 14–31; and Noel Lenski, ed. ''The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Constantine'' (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006), 411–17.</ref> -->
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