The third and fourth centuries in the Roman Empire were marked with perpetual civil military conflict. Dr Adrastos Omissi, University of Glasgow, joins the show to explain.
Some topics explored
- Civil wars in the Roman Empire in the third and fourth centuries
- Why civil wars were so frequent in this period
- The dynamic between the western (Rome) and eastern (Constantinople) parts of the Roman Empire
- Roman Emperor Diocletian
- Roman Emperor Constantine I
- The Tetrarchy
- How frequently Roman emperors visited Rome in this period
- Constantine as a Roman Emperor
Listen to the episode
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Show Notes
- Dr Adrastos Omissi is author of Emperors and Usurpers in the Later Roman Empire: Civil War, Panegyric, and the Construction of Legitimacy (Oxford University Press) and co-editor of Imperial Panegyric from Diocletian to Honorius (Liverpool University Press)
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