Cities, Palaces, and the Tetrarchic Imperial Courts

Verena Jaeschke; Caillan Davenport

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Cities, Palaces, and the Tetrarchic Imperial Courts

Verena Jaeschke^*
, Caillan Davenport

^*Corresponding author for this work

School of Literature, Languages & Linguistics

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This chapter considers the cities uses as principal residences by emperors during the Tetrarchic period (ad 284–324). These included Antioch (Antakya), Nicomedia (İzmit), Sirmium (Sremska Mitrovica), Thessalonica (Thessaloniki), and Serdica (Sofia) in the eastern provinces and Mediolanum (Milan), Augusta Treverorum (Trier), and Aquileia (ancient name retained) in the western half of the empire. The cities were all equipped with infrastructure, such as palaces, circuses, and baths, which marked them out as suitable residences to house the emperor and his court. These transformations did not occur simultaneously, but over a period of some decades. The chapter considers the way in which the foundation of these principal residences, and the movement between them, shaped the court community during the Tetrarchic period.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Roman Imperial Court in the Principate and Late Antiquity
Editors	Caillan Davenport, Meaghan McEvoy
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Chapter	3
Pages	75-104
Number of pages	30
ISBN (Electronic)	9780191955686
ISBN (Print)	9780192865236
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192865236.003.0004
Publication status	Published - Oct 2023

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