History Today, May 1st, 2005
GAIUS AURELIUS Valerius Diocletianus was sixty years old or so, had been Roman emperor for twenty years and had had enough. He decided to retire and grow vegetables in his home town of Split, on the Dalmatian coast of the Adriatic in Croatia. He had started life there in obscure circumstances--his father was said to have been a freed slave--but driving energy, force of personality and a genius for administration carried him up through a career in the army. By 284, approaching forty, Diocletian held senior rank in the force the Emperor Carinus sent against the Persians, led by the emperor's b...
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