On the Deaths of the Persecutors (De Mortibus Persecutorum)

Name: On the Deaths of the Persecutors (De Mortibus Persecutorum)
Author: Lactantius

Lactantius · 315 · public-domain-translation

26 claims in this dataset rest on this source.

The source

People it attests

Constantine the Great 2 claims
Lactantius 2 claims
Agnes of Rome 1 claim
Catherine of Alexandria 1 claim
Demetrius of Thessaloniki 1 claim
Diocletian 1 claim
Eusebius of Caesarea 1 claim
Galerius 1 claim
Januarius 1 claim
Licinius 1 claim
Lucian of Antioch 1 claim
Maximian 1 claim
Maximinus Daza 1 claim
Methodius of Olympus 1 claim
Pamphilus of Caesarea 1 claim
Peter of Alexandria 1 claim
Saint Lucy 1 claim
Vincent of Saragossa 1 claim

Documents read in it

Edict of Toleration of Galerius [object Object]
Letter of Licinius (the Edict of Milan) [object Object]

Events it narrates

Great Persecution 303
Edict of Serdica 311
Battle of the Milvian Bridge 312
Edict of Milan 313
On the Deaths of the Persecutors 315
Licinian persecution 316

Contemporary account of the Great Persecution and its end; preserves the Edict of Milan (ch. 48) and Galerius' edict of toleration (ch. 34). Public-domain translation in ANF volume 7, included in the project archive.