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The thesis of this paper is that the efforts undertaken by the senatorial aristocracy in Rome to preserve its identity between 350 and 395, were subverted by the political and religious opposition of the East Roman emperors and the Church. The paper explains that when Diocletian split the Roman Empire, he sealed the fate of the Roman West as effectively as the barbarians in 476.

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"The thesis of this paper is that the efforts undertaken by the senatorial aristocracy in Rome to preserve its identity between 350 and 395, were subverted by the political and religious opposition of the East Roman emperors and the Church.. When Diocletian split the Roman Empire, he sealed the fate of the Roman West as effectively as the barbarians in 476. Yet, as Rome in late antiquity "was for the most part a city without an imperial presence", there is a particular poignancy to "the sacred Senate" and the Rome of that era. "The city's Senators were, for many authors, an embodiment of..."

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