IDENTITY IN LATE ANTIQUITY: CONSIDERATIONS OF EUSEBIUS' PERSPECTIVE ABOUT CHRISTIAN'S IDENTITY IN THE FOURTH- CENTURY A.D.

This paper aims to reflect on the construction of identity between the Emperor Constantine and Christians from the analysis of Ecclesiastical History and Life of Constantine, works of a Christian author of significant activity in the fourth century A.D., Eusebius of Caesarea. The image of the Emperor Constantine in classical historiography, was linked to conversion or non-conversion of Constantine to Christianity. And even in recent monographs, we find examples findings of the same parameters. In the analysis of works cited above we seek more than the exaltation of Emperor's image favorable to Christians or a great political operator. In Eusebius we identify the search of such identity built between central figures of the Late Antiquity.