Constantine in Popular Culture
Constantine was played by Cornel Wilde in the 1962 film Constantine and the Cross.
Constantine: The Miracle of the Flaming Cross is a romanticised, novelised account of Constantine's life written by American author Frank G. Slaughter and published in 1965. It largely drew on Edward Gibbon's history of the Roman Empire as well as Eusebius of Caesarea's contemporary account, as indicated in the afterword of the original edition.
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