122- Jupiter and Hercules

In 293 AD Diocletian and Maximian invited Constantius and Galerius to share in their Imperial burdens, forming what we today call the Tetrarchy. 

In the mid-to-late 290s the Imperial Tetrarchy was at war on multiple fronts. In the west Constantius undertook the reconquest of Britain, while in the east, Galerius fought a newly hostile Sassanid Empire. 

Over the course of his reign Diocletian instituted a number of reforms to the military structure that helped transform the legions into a new kind of army.   

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