Accommodating Political Change under the Tetrarchy (293–306) [PDF]
SummaryThis article seeks to address the question how the Tetrarchic system of four rulers could be presented as legitimate in a society that had never seen this political constellation before. What were the different modes of presenting Tetrarchic rule and how did they help in making the new system acceptable?
Hekster, O.J. +6 more
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Walki armii rzymskiej z koczownikami w Afryce za czasów pierwszej tetrarchii (próba rekonstrukcji wydarzeń) [PDF]
(Conflict between the Roman army and African nomads during the first Tetrarchy [An attempt to reconstruct the events]): This article aims to reconstruct events that took place in the years 289–293 AD and 297–299 AD in the African provinces of the Roman ...
Kamil Wełna
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“Ex Marte se procreatum” – Did the Roman Emperor Galerius Make Mars his Personal Protective Deitie?
Lactantius referred in his work On the Deaths of the Persecutors (De mortibus persecutorum) to a great victory which Caesar Galerius won over the Persians.
Sławomir Bralewski
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Family and Authority: Reflections on the dynastic policy of Constantine I [PDF]
The article is a polemical review of I.A. Mirolyubov’s monograph “Dynastic Policy of Emperor Constantine the Great”. The book brings to the academic discussion several topics, including the thesis that the dynastic policy of Constantine sharply breaks ...
Vedeshkin, M.A.
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Lead seals with tetrarchic busts from the imperial palace in Sirmium [PDF]
In the course of archaeological excavations of the north section of the imperial palace in Sirmium (locality 85), conducted in 2015, as many as 39 lead seals were found to the south of column IV of the polygonal structure encountered in 2014 ...
Popović Ivana
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Late Roman necropolis of Romuliana, area south of the fortified palace: Research 2005-2006 [PDF]
The purpose of research conducted from 2004-2007 within the scope of international cooperation with the Roman-Germanic Commission of the German Institute of Archaeology in Frankfurt was to investigate the site of Gamzigrad - Romuliana in the extra muros ...
Petković Sofija
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La figure du prince dans l’Antiquité tardive (284-410)
After the period of military anarchy in the third century, the imperial institution was transformed, taking on new and more solid forms. Between 284 and 410, imperial power shifted from the tetrarchy of Diocletian to the “charismatic” monarchy of ...
Umberto Roberto
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Ideas about the criteria of the Ecumenical Council in Byzantium in the 1st half of the 15th century and the concept of the Pentarchy [PDF]
This article examines the views of Byzantine theologians and church leaders of the 1st half of the 15th century on the criteria for an Ecumenical Council in connection with the controversy about the Union of Florence.
Petr Paskov
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The Late Milestones of Asia Minor
The impressive corpus of milestones recently edited by the late David Henry French and set online by the British Institute at Ankara provides an extensive and in-depth knowledge of more than 1200 stones erected alongside the Roman roads of Asia Minor ...
Sylvain Destephen
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The article discussed here deals with a milestone whose location is unknown, but which is understood to have been erected 1.5 km away from the city center of Cibyra, based on the two inscriptions it bears.
Murat Arslan +2 more
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