Pages: 245-260

The paper suggests new interpretation of Zosimus’s account about military struggle conducted by Emperor Constantine the Great against Ravsimodos, the King of the Meotian Sarmatians. Absence of precise localization and dating of these events leaves room for different interpretations. The author summarizes the whole corpus of written information, numismatic and archaeological sources, and advances his own version of the chronology of Constantine’s collisions with various barbarians before and during the second civil war with Licinius in 322—324 AD. According to this version, King Ravsimodos is identical to Radаmsados, King of Bosporus, his men were the barbarians of Сentral and South-Western Crimea, and their attack in 324 was aimed against province Scythia in Thracia.

Keywords: Late Roman Empire, Chersonesos, Sarmatians, Constantine the Great, Licinius, Zosimus

Information about author:

Aleksandr Vasil’yev (Odessa, Ukraine). Candidate of Historical Sciences. Odessa National University “I. I. Mechnikov”, Shchepkin St., 12, Odessa, 65100, Ukraine
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