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If Diocletian did enter Rome shortly after his accession, he did not stay long; [49] he is attested back in the Balkans by 2 November 285, on campaign against the Sarmatians. [50] Possible head of Diocletian at the National Museum of Serbia. Diocletian replaced the prefect of Rome with his consular colleague
Diocletian's Palace far transcends local importance because of its degree of preservation. The Palace is one of the most famous and complete architectural and cultural features on the Croatian Adriatic coast. As the world's most complete remains of a Roman palace, it holds an outstanding place in Mediterranean, European, and world heritage.
Diocletian, acclaimed emperor on November 20, 284, was a religious conservative, faithful to the traditional Roman cult. Unlike Aurelian (r. 270–275), Diocletian did not foster any new cult of his own. He preferred the older Olympian gods. [42] Nonetheless, Diocletian did wish to inspire a general religious revival. [43]
The Baths of Diocletian in Rome with three-light “Diocletian windows” visible. Diocletian windows, also called thermal windows, are large semicircular windows characteristic of the enormous public baths of Ancient Rome. They have been revived on a limited basis by some classical revivalist architects in more modern times.
Emperor Diocletian (r. 285-305) greatly developed the ceremony surrounding the Roman Emperor; the quasi-republican ideals of Augustus' primus inter pares were abandoned for all but the Tetrarchs themselves. Diocletian took to wearing a gold crown and jewels, and forbade the use of purple cloth to all but the Emperors. [10]
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.
Models of ancient Rome were still created at the very end of the 20th century: thus, in 1980, Augustan Rome was represented on 4 m² at the Antikenmuseum in Berlin, and in 1990, a 20 m² model depicting Rome during the reigns of the Tarquins was created for the Museum of Rome. [279] A model of archaic Rome was also made around the same time.
Constantine had returned to Nicomedia from the eastern front by the spring of 303, in time to witness the beginnings of Diocletian's "Great Persecution", the most severe persecution of Christians in Roman history. [58] In late 302, Diocletian and Galerius sent a messenger to the oracle of Apollo at Didyma with an inquiry about Christians. [59]