September 20 -- Power


Exemplary stories:
Eutherius: Ammianus 16.7 (court power)
Antoninus: Ammianus 18.5 (local power)

Power:
pre-urban
urban/rural
Rome's growth
*--> the ostentation of empire from Augustus on
*--> the fact of military control

stages of Roman control:
*Julio-Claudian emperors
*Flavians (Titus to Domitian)
*Antonines
***(the comedy of Didius Julianus)
*Severans
*235-284: upheavals
*Diocletian to Julian
*Valentinian to Theodosius