September 20 -- Power<br>
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Exemplary stories:<br>
  Eutherius:  Ammianus 16.7  (court power)<br>
  Antoninus:  Ammianus 18.5  (local power)<br>
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Power:<br>
  pre-urban<br>
  urban/rural<br>
  Rome's growth<br>
*--> the ostentation of empire from Augustus on<br>
*--> the fact of military control<br>
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stages of Roman control:<br>
*Julio-Claudian emperors<br>
*Flavians (Titus to Domitian)<br>
*Antonines<br>
***(the comedy of Didius Julianus)<br>
*Severans<br>
*235-284:  upheavals<br>
*Diocletian to Julian<br>
*Valentinian to Theodosius<br>
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