quadrumvirate

In Palestine, Roman rule was exercised through the procurators and tetrarchy that expanded the scope of state power.

Constantius I was one of four emperors who together made up the so-called tetrarchy (literally, in Greek, 'the rule of four') which controlled the empire under the leadership of the senior emperor, Diocletian.

Back then, the national TV news appeared to be a tidy tetrarchy: two network news divisions owned by large appliance makers/weapons manufacturers (CBS by Westinghouse, NBC by General Electric), and the other two bought lately by the nation's top purveyors of Big Fun (ABC by Disney, CNN by Time Warner).

suggests that Diocletian's tetrarchy was bolstered by the philosophical monotheism of Porphyry, the Nicomedian court favorite.

154), and Diocletian did not introduce conscription, create the scholae palatinae, or create the tetrarchy in 301 (pp.

In the final chapter, where Haber moves to a consideration of Gay, her comments are crisp and stimulating; freed from the tetrarchy of Theocritus, Virgil, Sidney, and Marvell, and from the constraints of her main thesis, her writing acquires new vigour.

Sudden and irreversible decline following prosperity that lasted through the time of the Tetrarchy would be extraordinary.

Much of Constantine's success was due to his expertise in the art of propaganda, evidenced by his fictitious claim to have been descended from Claudius II (implying that he disregarded Diocletian's Tetrarchy).

Yet it was Diocletian who divided the Roman Empire in twain, appointing separate emperors to rule over each half (and two Caesars under each emperor, constituting what became known as the Tetrarchy).

In chapter two, Errington suggests that Constantine's attempt to restore the dynastic principle of imperial rule, in the wake of Diocletian's effort to replace this model with the Tetrarchy, was a major principle guiding the successors of Julian.

Diocletian and the Tetrarchy (Edinburgh University Press, pb 12.99 [pounds sterling], hb 40 [pounds sterling]) by Roger Rees is a thematic examination of the Emperor and his world and is complemented by a source materials section.

For the earliest securely datable inscription, any one of the five Golan boundary markers giving the names of Diocletian and his colleagues in the tetrarchy can serve; these notices were erected in connection with tax reform and collection measures in 297 C.E.