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Menu Forward Back |  The Death of Commodotus. Painted by F. Pelez, Italy. Lucius Verus succeeded to the imperial purple, as the assciate of Marcus Aurelius, on March 9, 161 AD. He died in 169 AD. Early in 162 he left Rome because of the attack of Vologases III on Armenia and was successful in defeating the Parthian monarch. In the spring of 166 he set out on his return journey to Rome, and on the way he stopped at Ephesus, where a monument was erected to celebrate his victory and he was officially received by the clerk of the city. It is possible that the inscription, now known as the Sardis Inscription, was carved about that time. [That Sardis was twice warden (probably of a temple for emperor worship) is stated also in Sardis, VII, 1, Nos. 18.5; 63.5; 67; and possibly in 64, 69 and 70. [BASOR, No. 158, April 1960, p. 8,9.] Sardis Inscription: "The city of the Sardians, twice temple-warden, [honored?] the Imperator Caesar Aurelius Antoninus Verus Augustus, Claudius Antonius Lepidus dedicated [this], [being] high priest of Asia, first treasurer, who by virtue of his office took charge of the arrangements for the gymnasium." After Trajan, no madly evil ruler arose until the year 180 AD when wicked Commodus ascended the throne as the son of the good emperor Marcus Aurelius and his wicked mother, Faustina. When his wife found her name on a list to be slain, she promptly poisoned him to spare the world one bad one for another. |
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 Rome holds a Royal Prisoner From a painting by Maynard Brown, England. Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra, is forced to march in the `Triumph of Aurelian.' |
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Menu Forward Back |  The Reign of Diocletian From a painting by Alexander Wagner, Germany. The Emperor Discards the Pretense of Roman Equality and Adopts Oriental Pomp. Diocletian (284-305), like so many others, left another sad period of pagan bloody prosecution of Christians in his realm of influence. Mithraism had reached its greatest influence and power. Diocletian divided his empire into four sections, and then determined to forever blot out Christianity. Edicts were issued demanding that all Christian churches were to be torn down, the land sold and the proceeds turned over to the state. |
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 Constantine had no Visions Vatican painting by Raphael (1483-1520). While Diocletian was boasting that Christianity was destroyed, his colleague Constantius, whom he had appointed as ruler of Gaul and Britain, was permitting Christians to enlist in his armies. After Diocletian died, six different generals claimed the succession; and one of these, Constantine, the son of Constantius, ultimately overthrew all the rest. - When Constantine set out from England to fight his rivals, he had some ideas on how to change the Roman Empire, but these were no divine visions, for God would not spoil his Word in such a way. By 321 AD, he was still hovering between paganism and arising Catholic Christianity, finally decreed making Mithra's `Sun day', the weekly national holy day. |
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Menu Forward Back |  Julian is Proclaimed as Emperor After a French painting of the early 19th century. Shown as young Julian refuses to be made Emperor by his soldiers. |
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 The Church Rebukes the State From a painting by Gebhard Fugel. Germany. |
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