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| - Gaius Aurelius Valerius Diocletianus(c. 245–c. 312), born Διοκλής (Diocles) and known in English as Diocletian, was Roman Emperor from November 20, 284 to May 1, 305. Diocletian began the last and greatest persecution of Christians by the Roman Empire on February 24, 303.
- Agent Diocletian Astreth works in the Department of Mary Sues. She was created by Tungsten Monk, and upon Tungsten's retirement was awarded into the custody of Neshomeh. Upon Tungsten's subsequent return, however, she was given back.
- Diocletian was one of the last pagan Roman Emperors. He was the son of Jupiter, making him the last demigod to rule Rome. During his career, Diocletian became responsible for the deaths of several thousand Christians in his persecution of Christianity. Weakened by illness, Diocletian became the only Emperor to voluntarily abdicate the throne after his defeat at the hands of his nephew, Constantine, whom he had formerly exiled. He lived out his retirement in his palace on the Dalmatian coast.
- Diocletian was Emperor of Rome from 240 - 311, when he abdicated due to illness. As Emperor he was known as Gaius Aurelius Valerius Diocletianus but was born with the name Diocles, near Spalatum (modern Split) in Dalmatia. His father was the scribe for a wealthy senator and may have been a freed slave. Diocletian rose through the ranks of the Roman military, eventually becoming Emperor along with a junior co-ruler Maximian. His importance as a figure in Church history is as the instigator of a particularly harsh persecution of Christians which produced many martyrs. His wife, Alexandra, was among these martyrs. He increased the cult of the Emperor, calling himself the son of Jove, and tried to revive the worship of the Roman gods.
- Diocletian assigned further on March 1 of 293, selecting Galerius and Constantius as Caesars, junior co-rulers. Under this 'tetrarchy', or "principle of four", every ruler would lead over a quarter-division of the realm. Diocletian secured the domain's fringes and cleansed it of all dangers to his energy. He vanquished the Sarmatians and Carpi amid a few battles somewhere around 285 and 299, the Alemanni in 288, and usurpers in Egypt somewhere around 297 and 298. Galerius, supported by Diocletian, crusaded effectively against Sassanid Persia, the realm's customary adversary. In 299 he sacked their capital, Ctesiphon. Diocletian drove the consequent transactions and accomplished an enduring and great peace.
- If any Roman Emperor came close to destroying Christianity then Diocletian (full name Diocletian Alanus Amstradivarius Masculinus-Boobus) would rank right up there with Karl Marx, Stalin and Darwin. A genius organiser, motivator, currency fixer and winner of Grocer of the Year for two decades in the late 3rd century, Diocletian wanted to reorganise the Roman Empire so that it only served one purpose: Namely, himself.
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| - Diocletian was Emperor of Rome from 240 - 311, when he abdicated due to illness. As Emperor he was known as Gaius Aurelius Valerius Diocletianus but was born with the name Diocles, near Spalatum (modern Split) in Dalmatia. His father was the scribe for a wealthy senator and may have been a freed slave. Diocletian rose through the ranks of the Roman military, eventually becoming Emperor along with a junior co-ruler Maximian. His importance as a figure in Church history is as the instigator of a particularly harsh persecution of Christians which produced many martyrs. His wife, Alexandra, was among these martyrs. He increased the cult of the Emperor, calling himself the son of Jove, and tried to revive the worship of the Roman gods. In about 297 an edict was made that all soldiers and Imperial officials must sacrifice to the gods - failure to do so resulted in dismissal. In 303 Diocletian ordered the destruction of all churches and and the burning of all Christian Scriptures. Further edicts in the same year ordered that all Christian clergy be imprisoned and tortured until they agreed to sacrifice to the Roman gods. In 304 Diocletian made his final order for the persecution of Christians. All Christians, both lay and clergy, who refused to sacrifice to the Roman gods were to be executed.
- Gaius Aurelius Valerius Diocletianus(c. 245–c. 312), born Διοκλής (Diocles) and known in English as Diocletian, was Roman Emperor from November 20, 284 to May 1, 305. Diocletian began the last and greatest persecution of Christians by the Roman Empire on February 24, 303.
- Agent Diocletian Astreth works in the Department of Mary Sues. She was created by Tungsten Monk, and upon Tungsten's retirement was awarded into the custody of Neshomeh. Upon Tungsten's subsequent return, however, she was given back.
- Diocletian was one of the last pagan Roman Emperors. He was the son of Jupiter, making him the last demigod to rule Rome. During his career, Diocletian became responsible for the deaths of several thousand Christians in his persecution of Christianity. Weakened by illness, Diocletian became the only Emperor to voluntarily abdicate the throne after his defeat at the hands of his nephew, Constantine, whom he had formerly exiled. He lived out his retirement in his palace on the Dalmatian coast.
- If any Roman Emperor came close to destroying Christianity then Diocletian (full name Diocletian Alanus Amstradivarius Masculinus-Boobus) would rank right up there with Karl Marx, Stalin and Darwin. A genius organiser, motivator, currency fixer and winner of Grocer of the Year for two decades in the late 3rd century, Diocletian wanted to reorganise the Roman Empire so that it only served one purpose: Namely, himself. Diocletian tore down the fiction that the empire as designed by Augustus was a socialism of the people, a 'we're all in this civilization together' approach. First amongst equals? Really?? A meritocracy??? hahaha..a theme park for weekend centurions???? No. It would be in future about domination with a capital D. With the chaos that had gone before, Diocletian was offering Order, Discipline and Paperwork. It was to him a great vision but it wasn't one the Christians were eager to subscribe too. So Diocletian made it his life work to scrub them out out Rome's future. He failed but Diocletian got his retirement plan fixed in advance, building a retreat the size of a small city along the shore of the Adriatic. It's still there. Now that is efficiency for you
- Diocletian assigned further on March 1 of 293, selecting Galerius and Constantius as Caesars, junior co-rulers. Under this 'tetrarchy', or "principle of four", every ruler would lead over a quarter-division of the realm. Diocletian secured the domain's fringes and cleansed it of all dangers to his energy. He vanquished the Sarmatians and Carpi amid a few battles somewhere around 285 and 299, the Alemanni in 288, and usurpers in Egypt somewhere around 297 and 298. Galerius, supported by Diocletian, crusaded effectively against Sassanid Persia, the realm's customary adversary. In 299 he sacked their capital, Ctesiphon. Diocletian drove the consequent transactions and accomplished an enduring and great peace. Diocletian isolated and augmented the realm's considerate and military administrations and redesigned the domain's common divisions, setting up the biggest and most bureaucratic government ever. He built up new managerial focuses in Nicomedia, Mediolanum, Antioch, and Trier, closer to the domain's wildernesses than the customary capital at Rome had been. Expanding on third-century patterns towards absolutism, he styled himself a dictator, hoisting himself over the realm's masses with forcing types of court services and construction modeling. Bureaucratic and military development, steady crusading, and development activities expanded the state's consumptions and required a complete expense change. From no less than 297 on, supreme tax collection was institutionalized, made more impartial, and exacted at by and large higher rates. Not the greater part of Diocletian's arrangements were effective: the Proclamation on Most extreme Costs (301), his endeavor to check expansion by means of value controls, was counterproductive and immediately overlooked. Albeit powerful while he administered, Diocletian's tetrarchic framework given way after his abandonment under the contending dynastic cases of Maxentius and Constantine, children of Maximian and Constantius individually. The Diocletianic Oppression (303–11), the domain's last, biggest, and bloodiest official mistreatment of Christianity, did not annihilate the realm's Christian group; for sure, after 324 Christianity turned into the domain's favored religion under its first Christian head, Constantine. Notwithstanding his disappointments, Diocletian's changes on a very basic level changed the structure of Roman magnificent government and balanced out the domain monetarily and militarily, empowering the realm to remain basically in place for an additional hundred years regardless of being close to the verge of breakdown in Diocletian's childhood. Debilitated by disease, Diocletian left the supreme office on 1 May 305, and turned into the first Roman ruler to resign the position deliberately. He experienced his retirement in his royal residence on the Dalmatian coast, tending to his vegetable patio nurseries. His royal residence in the long run turned into the center of the current city of Split.
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