Resumen de Constantine and the Captive Christians of Persia: Martyrdom and Religious Identity in Late Antiquity by Kyle Smith (review)
[...]they often present conflicting and contradictory images of not only the major players in these narratives, but also the events themselves. Sozomen's Constantine "transforms from a victor over the enemies of the people of God into a rather impotent king whose too little, too late response to overwhelming violence against Christians is merely a letter of protest" (55). Constantine and the Captive Christians of Persia would be suitable not only for upper level undergraduates, graduate students, and scholars who are interested in Roman and Persian Christianity in the fourth through sixth centuries, but also for those who are more generally interested in the uses of the past within the past.
