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| rdfs:comment | - Galerius is another Roman emperor from the same Illyrian stable as Diocletian, Maximian and Constantius I. Built like a thug, Galerius was illiterate and remained one all his life. His mother Romula was head screecher with a local mystery cult and claimed Hercules had caught her in the bushes and 'made' Galerius. From his mother Galerius inherited an extreme aversion of the written word would later make him deeply suspicious of any 'book fetish' cult. Within that ambit he would include Christianity, Judiasm and the relatively new Manichaen religions which were all 'wordy' mumbo-jumbo to Galerius.
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| abstract | - Galerius is another Roman emperor from the same Illyrian stable as Diocletian, Maximian and Constantius I. Built like a thug, Galerius was illiterate and remained one all his life. His mother Romula was head screecher with a local mystery cult and claimed Hercules had caught her in the bushes and 'made' Galerius. From his mother Galerius inherited an extreme aversion of the written word would later make him deeply suspicious of any 'book fetish' cult. Within that ambit he would include Christianity, Judiasm and the relatively new Manichaen religions which were all 'wordy' mumbo-jumbo to Galerius. The young brute appears to have joined the Roman army in his early 20s. His friends from this time would include a number of future emperors and he came under the influence of Diocletian. When in 284-285 Diocletian became undisputed heavyweight Roman emperor of the known world, Galerius shared the success of his boss. A few years later Galerius got to marry the Valeria, daughter of Diocletian and in 293 he became Caesar, Deputy Emperor of the Roman Empire in the East. This arrangement was part of Diocletian's complicated Tetrarch System of government which saw them share power with Maximian and Constantius I 'the colourless' in the western half of the empire. A settlement that saw four sets of bureaucrats shifting the blame around when things when wrong (often).
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