How to pronounce“dioc”in English

Diocletian assessed the situation in terms of his preconceptions, and it worked, for a while, but it looks mighty foolish 17 centuries later.

diocese have this guy in our midst and not tell us I left my kids with him and you guys call yourselves Christians and

- And Diocletian was in the 3rd century.

What Diocletian does essentially is,

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di uh dioc chrism and epicus and Sena the point was how to transform one's own

who is Diocletian, who comes in, and he tries to stabilize the economy.

So under Diocletan, he tries the Tetrarchy, where he splits the empire into four and you actually have sort of four emperors

twelve to date and the diocese knew knew

there was a guy named dioccipus in the fourth century yeah and he was

...of the later Roman Empire is that that comes from mostly Diocletian and Constantine's reforms.

- Yep. So Diocletian gets a gang of them together. They, eventually there are four. We call this the Tetrarchy. Um, and he basically allocates them to various,

They put a multiple rocket launcher in the temple of Diocletian.

get this squared away so they went to the diocese and they ask the bishop for

Kind of amusingly, on Diocletian's price edict, can you guess what the most expensive sort of item is?

But anyway, so Diocletian stabilizes, basically, the empire and these other guys as well, and gives it a new lease on life.

chalices and this macedonian dude threatened him and challenged him so dioccipus said yeah man we'll throw down and you know they set

meaning that this had picked up at the accession of the Roman Emperor Diocletian in 284 CE.

- So Late Roman Empire we use for both east and west, starting around the reign of Diocletian maybe, even a bit earlier, so during the third

We're talking about a period of big government now. So Diocletian creates a larger government, possibly a larger army, and in order to pay for that, you need more

priest he said you know no one will believe him so his parents said you know we believe you let's go the diocese and

they try to say well how do you really know he did this and so the diocesan officials say well he admitted it to us

with uh with beer and with mead but if you look at the literature from the first century a.d diocerities for example he writes

more we could say about the crisis. And then of course, the, the crisis is in part resolved by Diocletian as he does a hard reset on the structure on the Roman system of

government. So maybe you could speak a little bit more to the crisis that's important for us to understand, and how Diocletian solves the crisis in 284 AD.

But Dionysius-- yes, Dionysius replaced a calendrical system which had been based on what's called the Diocletianic era,

Going back to Rome for a moment, in the 3rd century AD, the emperor Diocletian staved off the fall of the empire for a few decades by oppressing the peasantry, raising taxes