{"podcast":{"title":"The Pax Romana Podcast","slug":"the-pax-romana-podcast-6582386","podcast_index_feed_id":6582386,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/e76256a0/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://paxromanapodcast.com","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_nologo/38719816/38719816-1729179050701-aec544dacce82.jpg","author":"Professor Colin Elliott","episode_count":115,"summary":"The assassination of Julius Caesar 2,000 years ago unleashed a wild era of Roman emperors, dark conspiracies, intense battles, economic booms and busts and profound religious shifts. Was this truly the Roman Empire's golden age? On the weekly Pax Romana Podcast, Historian Colin Elliott brings gripping stories from Roman history to life. Dive into history starting in episode 1 , or pick your poison from our catalogue: the birth of the empire in the Age of Augustus, Nero's Great Fire, the rise of Christianity, the wisdom and wars of Marcus Aurelius or the military chaos of the third century AD.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-pax-romana-podcast-6582386"},"episode":{"title":"The Tetrarchy - The Pax Romana Podcast 79","slug":"the-tetrarchy-the-pax-romana-podcast-79","published_at":"2025-05-29T04:50:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-pax-romana-podcast-6582386/the-tetrarchy-the-pax-romana-podcast-79","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-pax-romana-podcast-6582386","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/paxromanapodcast/episodes/The-Tetrarchy---The-Pax-Romana-Podcast-79-e33gbid","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/e76256a0/podcast/play/103345165/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2025-4-28%2F8357c1da-68aa-20d7-2912-d0bd602925b8.mp3","summary":"Diocletian a low-born Illyrian, rose to emperor in a period of crisis. Instead of waiting for another civil war to erupt, he appointed Maximian to co-rule with him, and handle the problematic western empire. But as problems with invading armies and usurpers continued, Diocletian took the dramatic step of appointing additional emperors in AD 293, establishing the Tetrarchy ('Rule of Four Men'). This militarized system concentrated power in the hands of four absolute autocrats, sidelining the Senate and marking the shift from Principate to Dominate. Donate: https://www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/WZTWCMWCJJYFC⁠ ⁠YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@ProfCPE⁠ Buy Professor Elliott's newest book: ⁠⁠ Pox Romana: The Plague that Shook the Roman World ⁠⁠ .","meta_description":"Diocletian a low-born Illyrian, rose to emperor in a period of crisis. Instead of waiting for another civil war to erupt, he appointed Maximian to co-rule…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1294,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-pax-romana-podcast-6582386/episodes/the-tetrarchy-the-pax-romana-podcast-79/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-pax-romana-podcast-6582386/the-tetrarchy-the-pax-romana-podcast-79.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}