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Dynastic Politics in the Age of Diocletian, AD 284-311
Buch von Byron Waldron
Sprache: Englisch

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How did military politics influence dynastic norms during the reign of Diocletian? In AD 293 the Roman world was plunged into a bold new experiment in government. Four soldiers shared the empire between them: two senior emperors, Diocletian and Maximian, and two junior emperors, Constantius and Galerius. This regime, now known as the Tetrarchy, engaged with dynastic power in thoroughly unconventional ways: Diocletian and Maximian presented themselves as brothers despite being unrelated; Diocletian and Galerius repeatedly thwarted the dynastic ambitions of individual Tetrarchs and their sons; the sons themselves were variously hostages, symbols of imperial unity and possibly targets of assassination; and the importance of women to imperial self-representation was much reduced. This is the first book to focus on the Tetrarchy as an imperial dynasty. Examining the dynasty through the lens of Rome's armies, it presents the Tetrarchic dynasty as a military experiment, created by a network of provincial career soldiers and tailored to the needs of the different regional armies. Mustering a diverse array of evidence, including archaeology, coins, statuary, inscriptions, panegyrics and invective, the author provides bold new interpretations of Tetrarchic dynastic politics, looking at brotherhood, empresses, imperial collegiality, military politics, hereditary succession and the roles of sons within Roman dynasties. Byron Waldron is an Honorary Associate at the University of Sydney and a member of the Serbo-Australian Glac Project, which is excavating a Late Roman site near Sremska Mitrovica. He holds the Australasian Society for Classical Studies Early Career Award.
How did military politics influence dynastic norms during the reign of Diocletian? In AD 293 the Roman world was plunged into a bold new experiment in government. Four soldiers shared the empire between them: two senior emperors, Diocletian and Maximian, and two junior emperors, Constantius and Galerius. This regime, now known as the Tetrarchy, engaged with dynastic power in thoroughly unconventional ways: Diocletian and Maximian presented themselves as brothers despite being unrelated; Diocletian and Galerius repeatedly thwarted the dynastic ambitions of individual Tetrarchs and their sons; the sons themselves were variously hostages, symbols of imperial unity and possibly targets of assassination; and the importance of women to imperial self-representation was much reduced. This is the first book to focus on the Tetrarchy as an imperial dynasty. Examining the dynasty through the lens of Rome's armies, it presents the Tetrarchic dynasty as a military experiment, created by a network of provincial career soldiers and tailored to the needs of the different regional armies. Mustering a diverse array of evidence, including archaeology, coins, statuary, inscriptions, panegyrics and invective, the author provides bold new interpretations of Tetrarchic dynastic politics, looking at brotherhood, empresses, imperial collegiality, military politics, hereditary succession and the roles of sons within Roman dynasties. Byron Waldron is an Honorary Associate at the University of Sydney and a member of the Serbo-Australian Glac Project, which is excavating a Late Roman site near Sremska Mitrovica. He holds the Australasian Society for Classical Studies Early Career Award.
Über den Autor

Byron Waldron is an Honorary Associate at the University of Sydney and a member of the Serbo-Australian Glac Project, which is excavating a Late Roman site near Sremska Mitrovica. He holds the Australasian Society for Classical Studies Early Career Award and has published articles for various journals including Journal of Late Antiquity, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik and Papers of the British School at Rome.

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Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Genre: Geschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9781474498654
ISBN-10: 1474498655
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Waldron, Byron
Hersteller: Edinburgh University Press
Maße: 234 x 156 x 18 mm
Von/Mit: Byron Waldron
Erscheinungsdatum: 15.07.2022
Gewicht: 0,59 kg
Artikel-ID: 121176746
Über den Autor

Byron Waldron is an Honorary Associate at the University of Sydney and a member of the Serbo-Australian Glac Project, which is excavating a Late Roman site near Sremska Mitrovica. He holds the Australasian Society for Classical Studies Early Career Award and has published articles for various journals including Journal of Late Antiquity, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik and Papers of the British School at Rome.

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
Genre: Geschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9781474498654
ISBN-10: 1474498655
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Waldron, Byron
Hersteller: Edinburgh University Press
Maße: 234 x 156 x 18 mm
Von/Mit: Byron Waldron
Erscheinungsdatum: 15.07.2022
Gewicht: 0,59 kg
Artikel-ID: 121176746
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