From the Editor

The Journal of Late Antiquity was founded a little over a decade ago by Ralph Mathisen, as the culmination of a collaborative vision to create the first Anglophone journal devoted entirely to Late Antiquity. During the five years of Ralph's editorship, it rapidly rose to prominence to become the premier international journal for late antique studies, garnering awards along the way in recognition of its standing within the field at large. For the next five years, Noel Lenski took the reins of JLA, and under his editorship it continued to grow by leaps and bounds, all the while adhering to the strict principles of scholarly excellence on which it had been founded. Beginning in January 2018, I was honored to succeed Noel as Editor-in-Chief. As I carry JLA's torch forward for this next leg of its journey, I do so with deep gratitude to both Ralph and Noel, and in celebration of their outstanding stewardship of this journal; I can only strive to follow in their footsteps.

As JLA now enters its second decade, our field is booming like never before, with more and more voices continually joining the collective conversation to offer fresh perspectives on age-old problems. This journal remains as necessary a forum as ever for this cross-disciplinary conversation and for the free exchange of ideas among our valued colleagues all over the world. As Editor, I thus encourage article submissions on all things late antique which represent all disciplines—from history, art, archaeology, and numismatics, to religion, literature, and language, and everything in between, with the highest standard of scholarship being the only constant.

I also wish to carry on JLA's robust tradition of publishing not only issues with individual, stand-alone studies (such as the present issue), but also special issues with groups of articles which coalesce around a single theme, ancient author, and the like, and so we encourage the submission of the best papers from successful conferences and panels which might form the basis of thematic volumes. Finally, although review articles historically have not been a regular part of JLA's stable, they can serve as an important medium for assessing and critiquing recent scholarly trends, and we encourage authors to submit them.

Although all else remains the same with JLA, with this issue come some changes to the editorial board, as is the natural order of things. Most notably, there has been a changing of the guard on the Review Board. Michael Kulikowski, Hagith Sivan, and Dennis Trout, who had served exemplarily as Review Editors since JLA's inception, have stepped down, and we thank them for their many years of service. They have been succeeded by another fantastic team of Review Editors consisting of Sabine Huebner, Jason Moralee, and Kristina Sessa, who have hit the ground running in doing work which is absolutely vital to the journal's operation. On other fronts, Dennis Trout has moved into the position of Associate Editor, and the Advisory Board welcomes five new members in the persons of Kimberly Bowes, Richard Flower, Michael Kulikowski, AnneMarie Luijendijk, and Hagith Sivan.

JLA has a tradition of not only covering Late Antiquity across many intersecting disciplines, but also representing the excellent work being done around the globe by colleagues at all stages of their careers, from well-established senior scholars to relative newcomers to the field. The current issue exemplifies this tradition. Leading off is Raymond Van Dam's "Constantine's First Visit to Rome with Diocletian in 303," in which he convincingly argues that Constantine was a member of Diocletian's entourage when Diocletian visited Rome in 303 to celebrate his vicennalia, and that this experience had a formative influence on the future emperor's policies and conceptions of how to rule. Focusing on roughly the same time period, Anne Hunnell Chen, in "Omitted Empresses: The (Non-)Role of Imperial Women in Tetrarchic Propaganda," accounts for why, contrary to previous tradition and expectation, imperial women associated with the First and Second Tetrarchies are absent from sculpture, coinage, monuments, and inscriptions, and she argues that their omission was part of a systematic campaign to...