5: Just How Screwed Up Was the Later Roman Empire?
The Fall of Rome Podcast
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The Importance of Fiction in the Roman Empire
Timothy Stanley: The Roman Empire became more authoritarian in the 4th century. He says it was due to a shift in relationship between emperor and his subjects. Local elites working hand in hand with an imperial court produced consensus, he says. Stanley: Diocletian embodied the newly authoritarian spirit of the later empire.
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