Eight Days That Made Rome

The Rebirth Of Rome (1x8)

Uitzenddatum: Dec 08, 2017

Bettany Hughes looks at the day which marked Rome's symbolic break with its thousand-year pagan past - the day in 337AD that Emperor Constantine the Great was baptised a Christian. It was a moment of profound significance not just for the empire, but for the history of the world and one of its major religions.