Abundance & The Good Life:
The Late-Antique Inheritance (cat. 1-11)
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Solidus of Crispus CaesarGold Late-Antique, ca. 324-325 Minted at Antioch Private Collection |
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Following several years of armed conflict, in 317, Constantine and Licinius formed what proved to be a short-lived treaty establishing Constantine’s sons Crispus and Constantius as Caesars together with Licinius’s son. Crispus was a teenager and the other two boys were mere infants. In 325, the victorious Constantine had Licinius and his nine-year-old son murdered despite promises to spare them both. Later, a similar fate befell Crispus who, after being awarded control of the western provinces for his role in the defeat of Licinius, was executed by his father in 326 for adultery.
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