Diocletian assumed command in 284, closing the book on five decades of near-anarchy. He ruled with an iron fist, stamping out Christians where he could. He is best remembered today for his Palace, an architectural model for the Adam houses of the late 19th century.
Diocletian assumed command in 284, closing the book on five decades of near-anarchy. He ruled with an iron fist, stamping out Christians where he could. He is best remembered today for his Palace, an...
Magnentius was a military commander in Gaul who rebelled against the Roman emperor Constantius II, removing and killing his junior colleague Constans, in the west. He appears to have had widescale...
A soldier during the reigns of Aurelian and Probus, Galerius was named Caesar in 293 and Augustus 12 years later, during the Tetrarchy period, when the Empire was divided into smaller units for ease...
Vetranio, was an experienced soldier and officer asked by Constantina, the sister of Roman Emperor Constantius II, to proclaim himself Caesar. Her brother Constans had been killed by Magnentius...