This episode focused on the achievements and person of Constantine gives a political interpretation of his religious choices and considers his adherence to Christianity as a political weapon to advance his rule and with it the interests of the Empire which he conceived as identical with those of his person.He eliminated through wars the rest of the imperial contenders, the pompous Maxentious in the battle of the Mulvian bridge where the above mentioned contenders military stratagem backfired as well as his former ally Licinious, who was also the husband of his sister. The latter, whom he had spared after defeat, he hired killers to kill as well as his son in his villa-there is a brilliant idea in the episode to show the assassination the same time with Constantine reciting to the bishops the articles of the Nicean Creed-a stark observation of the discrepancy between declaration of faith and actual practice. There is also the implication that he was behind the assassination of his wife. This laudable man who was made a saint by the Eastern Orthodox Church was nevertheless very shrewd politically and the tone of the episode justifies his actions and legacy.The rather neutral actor that plays him is a good choice, since being poker-faced becomes an autocrat.