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Dynastic Politics in the Age of Diocletian, AD 284-311

Dynastic Politics in the Age of Diocletian, AD 284-311

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Ancient RomeGeneral Military HistoryGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1474498663
ISBN13: 9781474498661
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: May 31 2024
Pages: 296
Weight: 0.92
Height: 0.62 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

In AD 293 the Roman world was plunged into a bold new experiment in government. Four soldiers shared the empire between them: two senior emperors, Diocletian and Maximian, and two junior emperors, Constantius and Galerius. This regime, now known as the Tetrarchy, engaged with dynastic power in thoroughly unconventional ways: Diocletian and Maximian presented themselves as brothers despite being unrelated; Diocletian and Galerius repeatedly thwarted the dynastic ambitions of individual Tetrarchs and their sons; the sons themselves were variously hostages, symbols of imperial unity and possibly targets of assassination; and the importance of women to imperial self-representation was much reduced.

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