Bringing Order to Chaos: The Armies of Diocletian

Ancient Warfare Podcast

The History Network

Society & Culture, Greece, Warfare, Ancient, Rome, History, Military

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🗓️ 2 August 2013

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Jasper, Josho and Michael are joined by Jason Klazmer to look at the the armies of Diocletian (Ancient Warfare Magazine VI-5)

"When Emperor Alexander Severus was assassinated in AD 235, the Roman Empire fell into an abyss that it would only crawl out of after almost fifty years. Roman armies clashed in struggles for the throne, with generals proclaimed emperor by their troops and then meeting violent ends a few months later – often at the hands of those same troops. Besides this internal power struggle, the Empire was also plagued by attacks from without."

Dur: 40min 49sec

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Ancient Warfare Magazine podcast produced by the History Network. If you have any
0:06.4	comments or ideas, email editor at ancient-warfare.com. And for other discussions, check out the
0:15.4	ancient warfare forum, which you can find a link to at www. www. ancient-warfare.com.
0:24.5	You can also find all the History Network podcasts
0:27.2	by going to www.thehistorynetwork.org.
0:33.1	Hello everyone. It's time for another ancient warfare magazine podcast slash
0:37.3	vidcast.
0:38.3	Joining me tonight are Joshua Bowers,
0:41.6	Taylor, and a special guest, Jason Klasmer.
0:45.8	How are you?
0:47.1	Hi, guys.
0:48.3	Today we're talking about the first issue that Yosho edited as editor of Ancient Warfare magazine,
0:54.6	Ancient Warfare Issue 6.5, which dealt with the Emperor Diocletian and His Times.
1:02.2	And as before, we've had a nice overview introduction by Michael Taylor.
1:09.1	So let's listen to that first, shall we?
1:12.0	In 8284, the guards of the Emperor Numarian opened his litter to discover a fetid corpse.
1:18.8	The emperor had been dead for some weeks, but the murder had been hidden until the stench of
1:23.7	decomposition gave it away. Such a scene was all too common in the 50 years following the
1:29.7	fall of Rome's last stable dynasty, the Severans in 235. For half-century emperors rose and fell at a
1:38.7	dizzying pace as the empire was racked with invasion, secession, political instability, and civil war.
1:47.4	The high commanders of the army quietly selected one of their own to ascend to the purple,
1:53.0	a career soldier named Diocles, who had risen from modest beginnings.
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