Summarizing the Third Century Crisis

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Summarizing the Third Century Crisis

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09-16-2008, 11:45 AM

Quote:Nevertheless, the cultural decline was present since the 250s if not earlier, so long before Aurelian.

Contemporaries certainly thought it had started with the death of Marcus Aurelius and had simply got worse -- if I remember correctly, there was a Sibylline prophecy that the world would end in AD 195!

Of course, if you catalogue the misfortunes, you can plot a curve which plunges in the 250s and 260s, and (imho) starts to pick up thereafter. But the world that Diocletian "restored" had become a completely different place.

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Summarizing the Third Century Crisis - by Jona Lendering - 09-10-2008, 08:18 AM

Re: Summarizing the Third Century Crisis - by D B Campbell - 09-10-2008, 02:37 PM

Re: Summarizing the Third Century Crisis - by Jona Lendering - 09-10-2008, 03:00 PM

Re: Summarizing the Third Century Crisis - by D B Campbell - 09-10-2008, 06:05 PM

Re: Summarizing the Third Century Crisis - by Carlton Bach - 09-10-2008, 06:40 PM

Re: Summarizing the Third Century Crisis - by D B Campbell - 09-10-2008, 07:34 PM

Re: Summarizing the Third Century Crisis - by Timotheus - 09-10-2008, 08:44 PM

Re: Summarizing the Third Century Crisis - by Jona Lendering - 09-10-2008, 10:01 PM

Re: Summarizing the Third Century Crisis - by Epictetus - 09-11-2008, 04:56 AM

Re: Summarizing the Third Century Crisis - by Jasper Oorthuys - 09-11-2008, 04:57 AM

Re: Summarizing the Third Century Crisis - by Theodosius the Great - 09-11-2008, 05:51 AM

Re: Summarizing the Third Century Crisis - by Jens Horstkotte - 09-11-2008, 06:55 AM

Re: Summarizing the Third Century Crisis - by Jens Horstkotte - 09-11-2008, 07:04 AM

Re: Summarizing the Third Century Crisis - by Jona Lendering - 09-11-2008, 07:16 AM

Re: Summarizing the Third Century Crisis - by D B Campbell - 09-11-2008, 08:12 AM

Re: Summarizing the Third Century Crisis - by Jona Lendering - 09-11-2008, 08:31 AM

Re: Summarizing the Third Century Crisis - by Nicholas Gaukroger - 09-11-2008, 02:45 PM

Re: Summarizing the Third Century Crisis - by Sean Manning - 09-11-2008, 04:00 PM

Re: Summarizing the Third Century Crisis - by Eleatic Guest - 09-11-2008, 04:16 PM

Re: Summarizing the Third Century Crisis - by Jona Lendering - 09-11-2008, 04:35 PM

Re: Summarizing the Third Century Crisis - by Robert Vermaat - 09-11-2008, 05:11 PM

Re: Summarizing the Third Century Crisis - by Jona Lendering - 09-11-2008, 05:16 PM

Re: Summarizing the Third Century Crisis - by Robert Vermaat - 09-11-2008, 05:27 PM

Re: Summarizing the Third Century Crisis - by Jens Horstkotte - 09-11-2008, 06:29 PM

Re: Summarizing the Third Century Crisis - by Jasper Oorthuys - 09-11-2008, 07:23 PM

Re: Summarizing the Third Century Crisis - by Robert Vermaat - 09-11-2008, 07:25 PM

Re: Summarizing the Third Century Crisis - by Eleatic Guest - 09-11-2008, 10:12 PM

Re: Summarizing the Third Century Crisis - by Jona Lendering - 09-11-2008, 11:15 PM

summary - by Graham Sumner - 09-12-2008, 04:17 PM

Re: Summarizing the Third Century Crisis - by SigniferOne - 09-16-2008, 03:28 AM

Re: Summarizing the Third Century Crisis - by D B Campbell - 09-16-2008, 11:45 AM

Re: Summarizing the Third Century Crisis - by Jona Lendering - 09-16-2008, 01:13 PM

Re: Summarizing the Third Century Crisis - by Nicholas Gaukroger - 09-16-2008, 02:01 PM

Re: Summarizing the Third Century Crisis - by SigniferOne - 09-16-2008, 09:11 PM

Re: Summarizing the Third Century Crisis - by D B Campbell - 09-18-2008, 12:16 PM

Re: Summarizing the Third Century Crisis - by Jona Lendering - 09-18-2008, 12:36 PM

Re: Summarizing the Third Century Crisis - by L C Cinna - 09-18-2008, 01:02 PM

Re: Summarizing the Third Century Crisis - by Sean Manning - 09-18-2008, 03:52 PM

Re: Summarizing the Third Century Crisis - by Jona Lendering - 09-18-2008, 08:08 PM

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