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| | Diocletian - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | By 298, however, Diocletian had succeeded in repelling Germanic intrusions from across the Danube and Rhine, had put a halt to Persian invasions in Syria and Palestine, and had defeated his political rivals within the Empire. | | | However, in the later part of Diocletian's reign, Diocletian embraced the policy of persecution with unequivocal zeal in his first "Edict against the Christians" (February 24, 303). | | | This, together with the new theocratic trappings Diocletian brought to the emperorship, would set the stage for the rise of Constantine and Christianity. |
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| | Diocletian |
| | Diocletian was in fact losing the battle as the assassination of Carinus by one of his own officers, left the opposing army without a leader. | | | Diocletian's government though was well aware of this. | | | Carinus' murder would also suggest a possible involvement by Diocletian, connecting him (although solely by rumour) with the possible assassination of three emperors. |
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| | Diocletian |
| | Diocletian had persecuted the Christians not because of their strange beliefs (he supported the idea of religious toleration), but because of their seemingly disloyalty to the state. | | | Diocletian had persecuted the Christians in the belief that they were undermining his efforts to save the empire. | | | The persecution of Diocletian was, indeed, the crowning struggle of the old idea of the god-emperor against the already great and powerful organization that denied his divinity. |
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http://latter-rain.com/eccle/diocle.htm
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| | About the life of our Patron Saint |
| | After Diocletian had suppressed the barbarian tribes which were attacking the Empire and after he had secured its borders, he began to concentrate on the Empire's internal affairs. | | | When Diocletian started his persecutions against the Christians, Saint George declared himself to be a Christian and thus denied the false idols. | | | The next morning Diocletian ordered that the prisoner be brought before him for questioning. |
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| | Diocletian's Problem-Reaction-Solution |
| | In the first, while Diocletian was sacrificing in public, the chief interpreter of the victims' organs reported that he could not read the future in them because of the hostile influence of Christians standing around. | | | The thousands of Christians butchered by Diocletian in the purge had not died in vain. | | | By 301 AD, after the conclusion of conflicts with the Germans and the Sassanids, Diocletian needed a new enemy to justify his tyrannical form of government. |
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| | Diocletian |
| | Diocletian's first act was to try, condemn, and execute Aper with his own hand. | | | The local citizens would feel neglected by the rightful emperor and would transfer their allegiance to the local ruler who often could and did defend them successfully from attack. | | | In A. 286, he chose Maximinus to govern the West as Augustus while Diocletian would rule in the East. |
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| | Egyptian Kings |
| | After the capitulation, Diocletian is alleged to have vowed to continue the slaughter of the populace until the blood reached his horse's knees. | | | Years later, Diocletian was in Alexandria again, just before the beginning of the "Great Persecution" of the Christians. | | | Politically his subjects had to yield their local self-government and individual freedom to the demands of an all-powerful central administration and its agents. |
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| | T.D. Barnes on Diocletian |
| | Many of Diocletian's subjects were grateful for the blessings of his reign. | | | The prefect of the city of Rome was dismissed and replaced by the Bassus who had been Diocletian s consular colleague. | | | But the next prefect, Pomponius Januarianus, who entered office on 27 February 288 and was also ordinary consul in that year, had been prefect of Egypt under Numerianus: he had presumably transferred his allegiance to the new regime with alacrity and performed useful services. |
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http://www.richmond.edu/~wstevens/history331texts/barnes.html
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| | Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome |
| | Martyrs in Rome under Diocletian, put to death for ministering to Christian prisoners awaiting martyrdom. | | | Venustian and his family were converts of Sabinus, while Exuperantius and Marcellus are said to have been his deacons. | | | Both martyrs, the former was beheaded in Volterra in Italy under Diocletian. |
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| | Roman Decadence, Rome and Romania, and the Emperors Who Weren't |
| | Ethnically, Diocletian is supposed, like several of his colleagues, to have been an Illyrian, a people whose modern descedants might be the Albanians. | | | Others take Phocas or Heraclius, under whom the Danube Frontier collapsed and the Arab invasion occurred, as the first "Byzantine" emperors: A.H.M. Jones' monumental and authoritative The Later Roman Empire 284-602 [Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986] and Mark Whittow's complementary The Making of Byzantium, 600-1015 [University of California Press, 1996] take that approach. | | | Warren Treadgold, in the previously cited A History of the Byzantine State and Society, provides a dramatic graphic (p.8) for the history of the Empire beginning with Diocletian. |
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| | Both would then select subordinates who were not relatives of their own to help in the task and secure a line of succession unlike a blood dynasty. | | | In the end he was vilified for shattering the economy, wreaking political chaos in Rome and resorting to the now somewhat anachronistic practice of persecuting Christians. | | | XXIT - Jupiter standing left, holding thunderbolt and scepter; Diocletian to lower left. |
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| | GERRYMANDERING AN EMPIRE |
| | These new leaders would also be the Prefects of the Prefecture of the East and the Prefecture of Italy. | | | Constantine, who found himself almost a prisoner in the East, escaped arriving in York just before his father died. | | | Lasting some eight years, this persecution proved the most severe persecution Christians faced. |
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http://www.christianchronicler.com/history1/gerrymandering_an_empire.html
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| | Diocletian, Roman Imperial Coins of, at WildWinds.com |
| | Diocletian AE Follis, after his abdication, 305-6 AD. | | | IMP DIOCLETIANVS AVG, radiate bust left in imperial mantle, holding eagle-tipped scepter / IOVI AVGG, Jupiter standing left with Victory on globe & scepter, A in ex. | | | IMP C C VAL DIOCLETIANVS AVG, radiate, draped & cuirassed bust right / CONCORDIA MILITVM, Diocletian standing right, holding parazonium, receiving Victory from Jupiter standing left with scepter. |
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| | Rome: The Late Empire |
| | Diocletian (284-305) came to the throne after a century of disorganization, internal dissent, economic collapse, and foreign invasions. | | |  & was like Diocletian in his affection for eastern ways of life and eastern views of monarchy. | | | The western half would be ruled by a colleague, Maximian, and the seat of government would be Rome; the eastern half would be ruled by Diocletian, and the seat of government was in Nicomedia. |
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http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/ROME/LATE.HTM
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| | Christians and the Diocletian Persecution |
| | The Christian apologist Lactantius notes** that Diocletian became offended when he discovered numerous Christian officials of the Court making the sign of the cross at pagan sacrifices, which Diocletian considered insolence. | | | Indeed, when fire was set to the palace, the Christians were strongly suspected. | | | Diocletian's wife, Prisca, and daughter, Valeria, became Christians. |
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| | Roman Emperors - DIR Diocletian |
| | Diocletian was identified with Jupiter and Maximianus with Hercules. | | | Diocletian attempted to use the state religion as a unifying element. | | | In the early years of his reign, Diocletian and his subordinates were able to defeat foreign enemies such as Alamanni, Sarmatians, Saracens, Franks, and Persians, and to put down rebellions in Britain and Egypt. |
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http://www.roman-emperors.org/dioclet.htm
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| | Amazon.com: Diocletian and the Roman Recovery: Books: S. WILLIAMS |
| | "Stephen Williams is not a professional Roman historian, but he is certainly an expert, and his view of Diocletian is original and convincing. | | | Join Amazon Prime and ship Two-Day for free and Overnight for $3.99. | | | Diocletian established this separation order to secure his personal safety. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0415918278?v=glance
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| | Emperor Diocletian: 284-305 |
| | Much of the evidence on the early life of Diocletian has been regarded with skepticism because of the poor credibility of early sources, and because of the false teachings presented by various historians. | | | This was significant for Diocletian because as a young soldier a prophesy was made that he would be made emperor after he had killed a boar. | | | This persecution of the Christian faith seemed to be a catalyst for the religion to spread even more rapidly. |
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Maximianus |
| | For this reason, when Diocletian was struggling with the Persians in Asia, Maximianus was entrusted with the leadership of the punitive expedition against the peasants and field slaves (Bagaudans) in Gaul who, driven by economical causes, had risen against Diocletian. | | | Diocletian gave him, who had been hitherto his brother-in-arms and was now his fellow regent, the surname Herculius, in remembrance of the help which the mythological Hercules rendered his father Jupiter in the latter's struggle against the giants. | | | The persecution of the Christians, which Diocletian had conducted with reckless brutality in the East since 303, was also taken up by Maximianus in the western provinces, of which he was governor. |
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| | Diocletian is considered responsible for the forced labor of 10,000 Christians in the back-bending task of construction. | | | Emperor Maximian, on his return from Africa, began constructing a vast bathing establishment, acting on behalf of his co-Emperor Diocletian, who was reigning in Asia Minor. | | | Almost a century after Caracalla gave Romans his gargantuan Baths, Emperor Diocletian, who never even visited Rome, strove to outshine his imperial predecessor by commissioning the largest and most gorgeous bathing establishment the world had ever seen. |
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| | Diocletian |
| | Obverse: Bust of Diocletian wearing mantle and holding branch and mappa. | | | Diocletian was faithful to the traditional Roman gods (he was not a sun worshipper like the emperors he succeeded), and ordered extensive persecution of the Christians. | | | He refused to participate in the civil war that followed his abdication, and appeared in public only once more, to settle a dispute among the new rulers of the empire. |
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http://members.aol.com/dkaplan888/dioc.htm
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| | Diocletian on Encyclopedia.com |
| | The persecution of the Christians in the latter part of his reign was a course to which he had been instigated by Galerius. | | | Diocletian retired to his castle at Salona, from which he saw his system fail as his successors began to quarrel among themselves. | | | In Diocletian's reign Britain was restored (296) to the empire, the Persians were subjugated (298), and the Marcomanni were expelled from the empire. |
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http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/D/Diocleti.asp
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| | DIOCLETIAN |
| | The last years of his rule were marked by the last major persecution of Christians. | | | From his time onward the highest commands were open to Germanic chiefs. | | | Diocletian reorganized the provinces of the empire, reformed the currency and emphasised the religious nature of his rule. |
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| | Roman Emperors DIR Maximianus Herculius |
| | In any case, Herculius had sworn an oath at the temple of Capitoline Jupiter to carry out the terms of the abdication. | | | Diocletian seems to have forced his colleague to abdicate. | | | When the Emperor Diocletian determined that the empire was too large for one man to govern on his own, he made Maximianus his Caesar in 285/6 and elevated him to the rank of Augustus in perhaps the spring of 286. |
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Diocletian |
| | When the son and successor of Carus, Numerian, was murdered at Chalcedon, the choice of the army fell upon Diocletian, who immediately slew with his own hand the murderer Aper (17 Sept., 284). | | | The reign of Diocletian (284-305) marked an era both in the military and political history of the empire. | | | Soon after his accession to power Diocletian realized that the empire was too unwieldy and too much exposed to attack to be safely ruled by a single head. |
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| | 303 Diocletion Persecution |
| | The number of Christian martyrs is incalculable, especially in the East. | | | Diocletian was the big name because he had been emperor since 284. | | | He recognized that his vast Roman Empire could best be governed by sharing his power. |
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| | Diocletian and Christian Persecutions |
| | This duty, however, proved too much for the Christians, and Diocletian ordered severe penalties against their disloyal insubordination. | | | This, in spite of his allowing his wife and daughter to join the troublesome cult. | | | The one under Emperor Decius in 250-251 resulted in perhaps 50 executions; the one under Diocletian in 302-305 resulted in perhaps 50 more executions (there was a brief persecution, as well, under the mentally unbalanced Nero). |
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| | Roman Coins of Diocletian |
| | Becoming emperor after the assassination of Carinus, Diocletian introduced many reforms that prolonged the life of the Empire, which was on the verge of total collapse before his reign. | | | Quies is the personification of rest and retirement, the obverse legend observes that Diocletian has found tranquility. | | | Diocletian, 20 November 284 - 1 March 305 A.D. Caius Aurelius Valerius Diocletianus was a man of humble birth who rose through the Roman military ranks on pure talent. |
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| | Diocletian and Constantine |
| | And those pesky Christians would be gone soon as well. | | | Diocletian in many ways earned the title he claimed for himself, “restorer of the world.” But the true turning point in Roman (and world) history was the reign of Constantine. | | | But Diocletian was determined to preserve his life, to preserve his power, and to restore peace and security to the empire. |
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| | Diocletian Persecutions |
| | Constantine was brought up in the court of Diocletian at Nicomedia, but had fled from the intrigues of Galerius to Britain. | | | It was Galerius, his son in law, that finally influenced Diocletian, in his old age, to authorize the persecution of the Christians and thus restore the State religion. | | | No other religion could have stood for so long a period the combined opposition of Jewish bigotry, Greek philosophy, and Roman policy and power; no other could have triumphed at last over so many foes by purely moral and spiritual force, without calling on carnal weapons to its aid. |
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| | ROMA - History and Civilization of the Eternal City |
| | He had a political purpose, Christianism, with its ideals was contrary to the cult of the kings, while Diocletian considered himself a living god, whom everybody had to obey. | | | Diocletian tried also to reintroduce the pagan religion starting new persecutions against the Cristians and assuming the title of Giovio (in homage to Jupiter). | | | After his reign rivalries and civil wars flared up again. |
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| | Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series II, Vol. I |
| | Flight of Constantine to His Father Because of the Plots of Diocletian. | | | Of His Son Constantine, Who in His Youth Accompanied Diocletian into Palestine. | | | The emperors then in power, observing his manly and vigorous figure and superior mind, were moved with feelings of jealousy and fear, and thenceforward carefully watched for an opportunity of inflicting some brand of disgrace on his character. |
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| | The Life of Emperor Diocletian |
| | The faces of Diocletian and his wife Prisca can be made out on the busts in the medallions of the frieze inside the Mausoleum (today's Cathedral). | | | Diocletian's seemingly fortuitous rise to power was not a mere episode but he succeeded to rule for two decades and lived to see a long retirement after abdicating, which amounts almost to a miracle. | | | Diocletian continued to govern directly the Asiatic part of the empire and Egypt from the capital of Nicomedia. |
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| | diocletian emperor of rome roman history |
| | Diocletian is probably best known otherwise for his ten-year persecution of the Christians, which made him the frequent villain of Christian literature in the Middle Ages. | | | 245-313 A.D. Diocletian assumed power in 284 A.D. An astute administrator, he soon decided that the key to governing the vast empire was to divide it. | | | He ruled with Maximian in 285, and then added two more "junior emperors" in 293, one of whom was Constantius, the father of |
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| | Diocletian also reformed the army, creating or reorganizing many of the units that would form the core of the later, much larger comitatenses, or field armies. | | | During his reign Diocletian fought a successful war against the Persians, defeated Achilleus in Egypt, and subdued Carausius and Allectus in Britain. | | | In 305 he abdicated in favour of Galerius, living in retirement until his death. |
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| | Diocletian (284-305 A.D.) - Post-Reform AE Radiate - 20.05mm, 3.02gr | | | Diocletian, his radiate, draped and cuirassed bust right | | | Diocletian receiving Victory on globe from Jupiter, leaning on sceptre. |
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| | Vopiscus - Diocletian and the Druidess |
| | Now Diocletian always had in his mind a desire to rule, as Maximian knew and my grandfather also, to whom he himself told these words of the Druidess. | | | I do not consider it too painstaking or yet too much in the ordinary manner to insert a story about Diocletian Augustus that seems not out of place here — an incident which he regarded as an omen of his future rule. | | | Then, however, reticent, as was his wont, he laughed and said nothing. |
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| | Diocletian was an emperor who co-ruled with Maximian, and Diocletian was one of the lower emperors who was born of a scribe or even a freedman. | | | Diocletian also massacred countless Christians, torturing them, and using them for sacrifice and beastly games in the Collosseum. | | | Maximian and Diocletian were adopted rulers, and the successor chosen for between them was the adopted Julius Constantius. |
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| | A Roman Palace in ex-Yugoslavia |
| | The city of Spalato, which means "little palace", was founded by the emperor Diocletian; he made it his own dwelling-place, and built within it a court and a palace, most part of which has been destroyed. | | | Beneath it are arching vaults, and to cover over the city throughout, and to build his palace and all the living quarters of the city on top of those vaults, which used to be prisons, in which he cruelly confined the saints whom he tormented. | | | The defence wall of this city has neither rampart nor bulwarks, but only lofty walls and arrow-slits. |
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| | New Catholic Dictionary: Diocletian; Valerius Diocletianus |
| | As the empire was unwieldly and exposed to attack, he associated with himself Maximian, with whom he celebrated the last triumph in Rome, 20 November 303, and further distributed his power by granting the inferior title of Cæsar to two generals, Galerius and Constantius Chlorus. | | | During the greater portion of Diocletian's reign the Christians enjoyed peace and prosperity, but under the influence of Galerius he inaugurated, 303, the last and most terrible of the ten persecutions of the early Church, which was waged with greatest severity in the East. |
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| | The Later Roman Empire |
| | Diocletian attacked that problem by blaming the empire's problems on the Christians and launched a violent program of persecution against them. | | | In the period 313-330, he made Christianity an accepted and even favored religion. | | | These reforms caused a loss of morale and public spirit. |
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| | Diocletian -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | The history of martyrdom began very early in Christianity with the death by stoning of a man named Stephen in AD 36. | | | Diocletian may be considered the real founder of the late empire, though the form of government he established—the tetrarchy, or four persons sharing power simultaneously—was transitory. | | | The succession of short terms was finally stopped by Diocletian (284–305), who abolished the last of the republican liberties. |
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| | Medieval Sourcebook: Diocletian: Edicts Against The Christians |
| | There are two authorities for the ten year period of the most intense persecution against the Christians, that itnitiated under Diocletian. | | | If you do reduplicate the document, indicate the source. |
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| | Diocletian's Palace, Split, Croatia |
| | This became an important point of meeting of the old and new parts of the town and the main point of communication. | | | WT1: Diocletian's Palace Walking Tour Houses on north-eastern side of the Peristyle were demolished in bombing during the WWII. | | | They were reconstructed and even closed during the centuries — that’s why there’s a smaller passage on their northern side that was opened in 18th Century. |
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http://www.virtualtourist.com/travel/Europe/Croatia/Dalmatia_Split_Region/Split-384998/Things_To_Do-Split-Diocletians_Palace-BR-1.html
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| | Some Scholarship pertaining to Diocletian and the economy |
| | Finley, M.I. Hendy, M.F. Mint and fiscal administration under Diocletian, his colleagues, and his successors A.D. Oliver, J.H. The governor's edict at Aezani after the edict of prices. | | | Ermatinger, James W. The economic reforms of Diocletian. | | | Finley, M.I. Private farm tenancy in Italy before Diocletian, in Studies in Roman property, by the Cambridge Univ. Res. |
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| | Ancient History Sourcebook: Late Roman Economic Policy |
| | These tasks have proved beyond the means of modern governments with millions of employees available to implement policy: it is certain that the very small corps of administrators in the Roman Empire could have had chance of imposing such rules. | | | As part of their efforts to make the empire secure, Diocletian and Constantine I both instituted economic polices with the goal of stabilizing prices and ensuring social stability. |
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