The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Part 3)

Edward Gibbon

⏱ 8 minHistory

Part 3 of 3. Diocletian refounds the empire with a college of four rulers and an oriental court, then astonishes the world by abdicating; the system dissolves into civil war until Constantine reunites Rome — while, unregarded, a new faith quietly rises to inherit it.

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