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I'm your host Matt Smith and with me today is Professor Kalyn Davenport,

head of the Centre for Classical Studies at the Australian National University.

This is episode C-C-L-I-I-I-I-I, How the Tetraki won the East.

With the tetrarch system still taking shape, Diocletian and his Caesar Galerius come under growing pressure in the east,

facing rebellion in Egypt and invasion from the Persian King Narech.

A series of hard campaigns, careful political choices, and eventual victory will determine whether this new imperial order can truly secure Rome's frontiers.

Here's Kaelin Davenport.

That was Professor Kaelin Davenport, headed the Centre for Classical Studies at the

Australian National University, and you have been listening to Emperors of Rome.

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