Abstract
In the research we propose in this project, we will analyze how the images of the Roman emperors Valentinian (r. 364-375) and Valens (r. 364-378) were constructed in the works of two of the greatest classicizing historians of Late Antiquity: Eunapius of Sardis (fl. ca. 400), whose fragments were preserved in the Excerpta Constantiniana and largely in the work of Zosimus (fl. ca. 500), and…