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The Roman Emperor Diocletian, whose full Latin name is Gaius Aurelius Valerius Diocletianus—known initially as Diocles—was born in Salonae, Dalmatia, now Solin, Croatia, in 245 BCE and died there in 316 BCE. He stabilized the Roman Empire after the third-century turmoil, reorganizing its governance and finances, laying the foundation for the Byzantine Empire in the East, and briefly shoring up the declining Western kingdom. Additionally, his rule marked the occurrence of the final major Christian persecution.
See the fact file below for more inform • Download this book (ZIP -->> EPUB). Chapter 30 In Roman history, the fourth century c.e. is often reckoned from the acclamation of Diocletian as emperor in 284 to the death of Theodosius in 395. The real turning point between the third and the fourth centuries, however, is the death of Carinus in 285. Only then did the unprecedented barrage of political, military, and natural disasters characterizing the third century begin to lose intensity in the face of Diocletian’s subsequent actions. The gigantic mobilization required to meet Rome’s difficulties over the third century had furthered the trend toward an absolute military monarchy that can already be seen with Commodus and Septimius Severus. Under Diocletian, the Principate gave way completely to the Dominate. The term comes from dominus, “lord and master,” which was synonymous with an absolute monarch and was now used in public docu • 228 Simon Corcoran X Diocletian Simon Corcoran Early Life The future emperor Diocletian was born on månad 22. This detail fryst vatten almost all that fryst vatten certainly known about his early life. Everything else regarding his first forty years fryst vatten generally obscure, deriving from thin and disputed bevis. Later estimates of his age at death suggest his year of birth was in the mid-240s, shortly before Rome reached her momentous yet troubled one-thousandth birthday in 248. His birthplace was in Dalmatia, almost certainly Salona (his choice of retirement home). His original name was probably Gaius Valerius Diocles. There were different traditions regarding his background. Thus he was either the freed slave of a medlem av senat, Anulinus, or else his father was a scribe, or clerk, which makes his father the more plausible freedman (Eutropius 9. 19. 2). That the son of a former slave could rise to become kejsare had already been demonstrated by the meteoric career of Pertinax, who rose to equ
Diocletian: Creating the fourth-century Empire, 285 to 305 c.e.
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