the ledger of connections
The Connections of Diocletian
Augustus of the Eastern Roman Empire (244-311) Every person recorded alongside Diocletian in the archive: family, teachers, students, influences, and the contemporaries who shared the same years.
Family & Connections
People recorded alongside Diocletian in the ledgers of the archive.
- Spouses
- Prisca, Serena of Rome
- Children
- Galeria Valeria, Galerius, Maximian, Artemia
- Siblings
- Maximian, Carausius
Alive in the same years
Records in the archive whose lifetimes overlapped the years 244 CE to 316 CE.

Ancient era
Galen
c. 200 CE – c. 300 CE
2nd-century Greek physician, surgeon and philosopher

Ancient era
Constantine the Great
February 27, 272 CE – May 22, 337 CE
Roman emperor from 306 to 337 and first to convert to Christianity (272–337)

Ancient era
Zenobia
240 CE – 274 CE
3rd-century Queen of the Palmyrene Empire

Ancient era
Frumentius
310 CE – 380 CE
Bishop of Aksum

Ancient era
Shapur I
c. 300 CE – 270 CE
Second Sassanid emperor (r. 241–272)

Ancient era
Shapur II
309 CE – 379 CE
Sasanian emperor

Ancient era
Kartir
c. 300 CE – c. 300 CE
Zoroastrian high-priest of the late 3rd century

Ancient era
Odaenathus
c. 220 CE – 267 CE
King of Palmyra from 260 to 267

Ancient era
Philip the Arab
204 CE – 249 CE
Roman Emperor (204-249)

Ancient era
Pappus of Alexandria
290 CE – 350 CE
4th century Greek mathematician

Ancient era
Diophantus
c. 201 CE – 284 CE
3rd century Alexandrian Greek mathematician

Ancient era
Plotinus
205 CE – 270 CE
Hellenistic Platonist philosopher and founder of Neoplatonism (c. 204/5–270)