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The Tetrarchy: How Diocletian Rebuilt an Empire by Dividing It

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Book Two of The Shape of Roman Power. Diocletian shared supreme power first with one colleague, then with three, building a college of four emperors after fifty years of civil war and collapse. Traces his rise, the administrative and currency reforms, the Edict on Maximum Prices, the Great Persecution, and the succession crisis that tore the system apart within a year of his retirement.

What you get

  • Ten chapters plus introduction and conclusion, a full chronology and a historiography chapter
  • A4 and US Letter PDFs, plus a mobile edition and an EPUB
  • A verified further-reading list of real scholarly sources

For: Readers following the trilogy, or anyone curious how Rome survived the Crisis of the Third Century.

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