{"id":109766,"date":"2022-08-15T09:38:45","date_gmt":"2022-08-15T07:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/?post_type=ciekawostki&#038;p=109766"},"modified":"2022-08-15T09:38:45","modified_gmt":"2022-08-15T07:38:45","slug":"roman-absolutism","status":"publish","type":"ciekawostki","link":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/curiosities\/roman-absolutism\/","title":{"rendered":"Roman absolutism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the end of the 3rd century CE, the emperor ceased to be princeps to become &#8220;domine&#8221; &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/ustroj\/cesarstwo-rzymskie\/dominat\/\">dominat<\/a>. We owe the new type of government to <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/biografie\/dioklecjan\/\">Diocletian<\/a>, who ruled from 284 to 305 CE. The emperor was now omnipotent, he could change the law as he pleased, and the appearance of a republic vanished. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>His <b>absolutism was the principle of state unity<\/b>. The ideology of the divinity of the monarch was developing, the crime against him was not only an insult to majesty, but also a sacrilege.<\/p>\n<p>The expression of the religious character of the arguments invoked to justify the ruler&#8217;s despotism was the then very popular solar theology: the invincible emperor is identical to the sun; the <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/curiosities\/eagle-symbol-of-rome\/\">eagle<\/a> became the imperial symbol, the only animal that (according to myths) can look the sun in the eyes; the divine sun is the ruler of the empire, and the emperor is its governor.<\/p>\n<p>The solar cult fostered monotheism, monotheism became a political problem, a problem that <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/biografie\/konstantyn-wielki\/\">Constantine the Great<\/a> solved by legalizing <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-religion\/christianization-of-ancient-rome\/\">Christianity<\/a>. The baptism of the ruler was to ensure &#8211; already in conditions of increasing anarchy and symptoms of social, economic and political and political decay &#8211; the durability of the empire and the absolutism of its emperor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dalej\"><a title=\"More about Dominata\" href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/ustroj\/cesarstwo-rzymskie\/dominat\/\">More about Dominate<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":36412,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"kategorie_ciekawostek":[77],"class_list":["post-109766","ciekawostki","type-ciekawostki","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","kategorie_ciekawostek-unknown-facts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/109766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ciekawostki"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/109766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kategorie_ciekawostek","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kategorie_ciekawostek?post=109766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}