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Diocletian led the subsequent negotiations and achieved a lasting and favorable peace. Diocletian separated and enlarged the empire's civil and military services and reorganized the empire's provincial divisions, establishing the largest and most bureaucratic government in the history of the empire.
Diocletian's panegyric attests to a treaty of Diocletian with Persia in that same year, by which the Persian king Bahram II presumably recognized Tiridates III as king of Armenia. The gifts received from Bahram II were interpreted as the symbols of a Roman victory over the Sasanians (of which the solution of the Armenian question constituted ...
St. Erasmus flogged in the presence of Emperor Diocletian. Byzantine artwork, from the crypt of the church of Santa Maria in Via Lata in Rome. The Diocletianic or Great Persecution was the last and most severe persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire . [ 1 ]
The reign of the emperor Diocletian (284−305) marked the final widespread persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire. The most intense period of violence came after Diocletian issued an edict in 303 more strictly enforcing adherence to the traditional religious practices of Rome in conjunction with the Imperial cult.
The Roman Emperors Diocletian and Constantine I both played an important role in reforming the organization of the whole empire. The empire in its entirety had become difficult to control, and Diocletian resolved this by creating a Tetrarchy that allowed for augusti to rule in each of the western and eastern halves of the empire, while two ...
Diocletian's panegyric attests to a treaty of Diocletian with Persia in that same year, by which the Persian king Bahram II presumably recognized Tiridates III as king of Armenia. The gifts received from Bahram II were interpreted as the symbols of a Roman victory over the Sasanians (of which the solution of the Armenian question constituted ...
The Tetrarchy was the system instituted by Roman emperor Diocletian in 293 AD to govern the ancient Roman Empire by dividing it between two emperors, the augusti, and their junior colleagues and designated successors, the caesares.
Diocletian divided the Roman Empire when, in 286, he elevated Maximian to the rank of Augustus (emperor) and gave him control of the Western Empire, while he continued to rule the East. [ 28 ] [ 29 ] [ 30 ] In 293, Galerius and Constantius Chlorus were appointed as their subordinate ( caesars ), as a way to avoid the civil unrest that had ...