C C 302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Suovetaurilia, Broad Church, Plotinus
4 Jan 2017
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Palmyra (warrior queen: more rigid class structure, starting earlier: honestiores (get better treatment), humiliores (humble, lower class) Restabilization: diocletian and the dominate (ad 284-305: no more nice guy princeps, but dominus; diocletian = from lower class worked his way up, ruled 21 years and went to rome once. Rome ceases to be the capital; instead 4 capitals closer to where action is needed (e. g. milan); empire is partitioned as emperors worked as a team; reorganization of empire (294 ad). Started streamlining the empire, gave up some territories to make it more defensible. Streamlining of empire; provinces (over 100) and dioceses (12, governed by a vicar) Economics by decree: ; the edict on maximum prices (ad 301) Iv: basic problem: ignores vastly differing situations across the empire and the law of supply and demand = very easy for people to maneuver supplies in some places to get a higher price.
