Since the subject of inflation under Emperor Diocletian won’t seem to stop dogging Paul Krugman, I thought I might try to bring a little information to the table following Prόdromos-Ioánnis ...
When you hear Diocletian's Palace, you might picture a castle with halls to tour and works of art to enjoy, but you'd be mistaken. Back in the fourth century, this palace was created as a fortress, ...
The “Crisis of the Third Century,” a fifty-year period which saw some two dozen men hold the imperium and some score more make bids for it, came to an end with the accession of Diocletian (r., 284-305 ...
The emperor Diocletian decided that the Roman Empire was too big for one man to rule effectively, so in 285 he divided it into several parts, though in effect there were two: east and west. The ...
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Some 1,700 years on, the Emperor Diocletian would still recognise his palace – or the shell of it, at least. This vast, rectangular complex fell into disuse in the sixth century, 300 years after its ...
It represented Diocletian’s own triumph of 303 A.D. — the last triumph ever to climb the Capitoline with the silent Virgin along the Sacred Way. ‘As we were talking of mortality,’ Diocletian said, ‘I ...
The U.S. dollar’s reserve currency status is one of America’s greatest strengths, but President Joe Biden seems hellbent on toppling the dollar from its throne through both his domestic and foreign ...