See, THIS is what wikipedia needs to give me. If salon and rheinsberg didn't already exist I'd say there needs to be a place where someone who is starting from basically scratch can get an overview of What The Heck Is Going On.
Can you imagine living in Rome and trying to administer all those provinces and defend all the outreaches of the that red area?
Ha, I remember this was a problem even with the Flavian dynasty, when I read about them this fall -- that they kept having rebellions and things they had to go look after :D
I also am assuming you guys are going to tell me about... Maxentius, Constantine, Theodora (Constantine's evil stepmother??), Chlorus (oh wait, Constantius Chlorus, huh. But I still need to know the gossipy deets!), Maximinus Daza (?), Severus II, Galerius, Lactanius, Fausta, Crispus, and I'm probably forgetting others! :)
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Re: Diocletian/Maximian primer??
Date: 2022-12-27 04:56 am (UTC)Can you imagine living in Rome and trying to administer all those provinces and defend all the outreaches of the that red area?
Ha, I remember this was a problem even with the Flavian dynasty, when I read about them this fall -- that they kept having rebellions and things they had to go look after :D
I also am assuming you guys are going to tell me about... Maxentius, Constantine, Theodora (Constantine's evil stepmother??), Chlorus (oh wait, Constantius Chlorus, huh. But I still need to know the gossipy deets!), Maximinus Daza (?), Severus II, Galerius, Lactanius, Fausta, Crispus, and I'm probably forgetting others! :)