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Meet Diocletian – the Roman emperor who retired to grow cabbages

By Peter Edwell, Associate Professor in Ancient History, Macquarie University

Most Roman emperors died on the job. So when the emperor Diocletian decided to abdicate and retire in March 305 CE, it was a highly unusual development.

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