caa a22 4500 386376824 CHVBK 20180307112022.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198911 xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/632052 doi S0075426900012805 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.2307/632052 Lactantius, Hermes Trismegistus and Constantinian obelisks [Elektronische Daten] In a recent article in this journal (JHS cvii [1987] 51-57) Garth Fowden has argued that the obelisk from Karnak erected by Constantius II in Rome in 357 had been promised to that city by his father Constantine, as Ammianus Marcellinus states, and was not originally intended, as was claimed in the (lost) inscription on its base, for Constantine's new foundation at Constantinople. The interesting suggestion is made that Constantine might have been in touch with Athenian religious experts over the matter, and the project is seen as an earnest of ‘his desire to conciliate the pagan Establishment of Old Rome'. The point of this piece is to enlarge on the possible significance of the obelisk to contemporary Christians that is hinted at by Dr Fowden. Constantine paid three visits to Rome as emperor, in 312, after winning the Battle of the Milvian Bridge, in 315 during the celebration of his Decennalia, and in 326 for his Vicennalia; on at least one of these occasions, he gave offence to non-Christian Romans by declining to perform the customary procession to the Capitol to offer sacrifice. Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1989 Nicholson Caroline Bryn Mawr College University of Minnesota American School of Classical Studies at Athens Nicholson Oliver Bryn Mawr College University of Minnesota American School of Classical Studies at Athens The Journal of Hellenic Studies Cambridge University Press 109(1989-11), 198-200 0075-4269 109<198 1989 109 JHS https://doi.org/10.2307/632052 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/632052 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Nicholson Caroline Bryn Mawr College University of Minnesota American School of Classical Studies at Athens NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Nicholson Oliver Bryn Mawr College University of Minnesota American School of Classical Studies at Athens NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The Journal of Hellenic Studies Cambridge University Press 109(1989-11), 198-200 0075-4269 109<198 1989 109 JHS CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge