The Consulate of 346 c.e.*

The changes to the Roman state brought about by Constantine were consolidated thanks to the survival of his dynasty after his death. This article challenges the dominance of Christian sources to our understanding of the political history of Constantine's sons. Bringing to light overlooked numismatic evidence, it argues that discrepancies in the consular fasti during 340s are not evidence for the intrusion of ecclesiastical politics upon one of Rome's oldest political offices (as commonly thought). Rather, they arose from attempted reforms to the way that imperial time and space were marked in the post-Constantinian age.