Word: diocletian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plainly stands for the corruption of the old Czarist regime, while Lara may be Mary Magdalene or Russia herself. And what of Yurii Zhivago? He too stands for Russia. He also stands for martyrdom (Critic Edmund Wilson notes that Yurii means George and perhaps suggests St. George, martyred under Diocletian). Above all, Zhivago is Christlike in his suffering and in his promise of life; his story is a modern passion...
...however, an important field, not only because it is comparatively unexplored, but because its implications cast a ray of light on Russia and the near East. For these areas, the Byzantine Empire, which began according to most scholars with the accession of Diocletian in 284 A.D. and ended with the fall of Constantinople in 1453, is modern history, rather than medievalism. With this realization in mind, centers have grown up in Paris, Brussels,, Rome and Munich...
...years since the Emperor Diocletian's price control edict (301 A.D.), and rigid economic regulation and manpower control had become a way of life in the Roman Empire. To Bureaucrat Caius Sempronius Felix (a fictional but true-to-history creation of British Novelist Alfred Duggan), his wife's question seemed unsophisticated. Felix could concede that controls discouraged production, halted expansion and bred more controls, but he found it unthinkable that society could ever again get along without them...
...Turk had a taste of the maladies (corruption, harem government) that were to make him one day the Sick Man of Europe. Suleiman, contends Lamb, is not to be blamed for the subsequent decline of his people; history forced him into the role of a bureaucratizer, a Turkish Diocletian, and he filled it ably. He showed mercy to his enemies, and was remarkably faithful to his wife. He was, in fact, a quite speakable fellow...
...Roman Emperor (245-313 A.D.) who issued an edict fixing prices of such things as cereals, wines, meat, fruits, vegetables, leather, timber, carpets and clothing. Punishment for overcharging: death or deportation. Fate of Diocletian's program: utter failure...