SEPT. 6:  ROMAN EMPIRE AND ROMAN POWER, AUGUSTUS TO DIOCLETIAN

Octavian Augustus, the first emperor:

Restoring order in the aftermath of chaos:

Time-line of Roman Emperors (from the De Imperatoribus Romanis website)

A "Good Emperor" -- Marcus Aurelius

A "Bad Emperor":  Caracalla

The Roman Ideology of Victory:  defeated barbarians

Roman power expressed:  the Triumph

(here:  menorah taken from the Jerusalem Temple after the Jewish revolt of AD 70)

Violence and the Entertainment Industry:  Gladiators

Beast-fights:

Roman Criminal Justice:  Damnatio ad Bestias

The Third Century Crisis:  Rome humiliated by Persia, 260 AD

(Persian king Shapur I defeats and captures Roman emperor Valerian, "without even unsheathing his sword")

Order restored:  Diocletian

Map of Diocletian's Re-Organized Empire, c.290 AD

Too big a job for one man:  Diocletian and his co-Augustus, Maximian

Teamwork, teamwork, teamwork:  the Tetrarchy

Diocletian's Retirement Villa in Split (Croatia):