Another review has been completed for our Roman Books section, thanks to community member Ursus.
D.G. Kousoulas inveigles the line between history and historical fiction in his The Life and Times of Constantine The Great. Kousoulas declares in his introduction that he shall take a different approach to history: "the traditional approach to writing history and biography is to tell about what happened, rather than to describe what actually did happen, as a novelist might-in effect to tell a story. Moving away from the traditionalist approach in order 'to tell a story' has been my guiding principle." The author presents a very readable, if sometimes shallow, portrait of the events and personalities surrounding the rise of the first Christian Emperor...
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