Galerio. Il tetrarca infine tollerante

Abstract

This volume offers a political biography of Galerius, which sets free the image of the tetrarch, too often considered a person who lived in the penumbra of Diocletian, and restores to his actions their own internal consistency and organic evolution over time. Without losing sight of realities inherent in the multiplicity of the tetrarchs and in the development of the tetrarchy as an institution, this work focuses attention on Galerius in order to restore to him an image of autonomy which is not necessarily linked to the other protagonists in the drama in order to highlight each situation in which Galerius was successful at creating his own way. The goal has been to reconstruct policies that were specifically Galerian with an approach and a line of action that were original, whether within the ever-developing tetrarchy or in its juridical ambit and religious sphere, by means of the internal and comparative analysis of epigraphic documents as well as juridical and literary sources. On the whole, Galerius emerges as a person who developed his own lines of thought and models of intervention that were original and who was able to adapt state policy to the shifts that were occurring around him, especially in the realm of religion.