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Historical person
278–312
Maxentius was a Roman emperor in Italy and Africa from 306 to 312. His defeat by Constantine at the Battle of the Milvian Bridge became a decisive moment in the civil wars of the Tetrarchy and in later Christian imperial memory.
In Simon Turney’s Sons of Rome, against this changing political order, the young Constantine and Maxentius meet and form a friendship. In Simon Turney’s Gods of Rome, his army is experienced but tired and divided by competing religious beliefs, while Maxentius faces unrest in the capital and must decide whether to remain behind its defences or risk a decisive battle. Other novels featuring Maxentius include Simon Turney’s Masters of Rome and Bryan M. Litfin’s The Conqueror.
Series
Rise of Emperors follows Constantine and Maxentius from youth and friendship into the succession struggles created by Diocletian’s Tetrarchy. Their lives develop alongside abdications, rival courts, religious division and repeated civil wars as a system designed to prevent dynastic conflict instead produces competing emperors. The trilogy treats both…
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Constantine’s Empire follows Brandulf Rex, a Germanic soldier drawn into Roman intelligence work, and Junia Flavia, a senator’s daughter committed to the Christian church, from the civil war of AD 312 into the political and religious upheavals of the mid-320s. Their lives intersect with Constantine’s campaigns against Maxentius…
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Non Fiction
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