The Roman Empire in the Two Sixties

The two sixties did not represent the rise of native independence movements. The decade represented, instead, an estrangement between the governing elites of the three regions. Odinothus never pressed for the title of augustus, and gallienus never attempted to assert control over the east. And this was a state of affairs that suited both just fine for the time being. Whether or not there was a set of policies gallienus could have pursued to create a more unified, centrally guided response to the invasions is ultimately irrelevant. It's not like he was fiddling while rome burned. He was beating off an invasion of italy itself. When the political structure of the empire