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<p>[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 4627842, member: 110504"]All the way back to when I was a kid, in Isaac Asimov's histories of the Roman Republic and Empire (2 vol.s), he noted that during the period of the 'Barracks Emperors,' the average reign was 2 1/2 years. </p><p>In a similar vein, this is going to be old news to that that many people on this forum. But the interval from Valerian to Gallienus, with the attendant beginnnings, anyway, of a fully functional dynastic element, was the exception that proves the rule. Whether usurpation was directly involved (as it was, often as not), the common denominator ran heavily to assassination, only occasionally 'relieved' by death in battle on the frontiers. Thank you, not the best time to be a reigning 'monarch.'[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 4627842, member: 110504"]All the way back to when I was a kid, in Isaac Asimov's histories of the Roman Republic and Empire (2 vol.s), he noted that during the period of the 'Barracks Emperors,' the average reign was 2 1/2 years. In a similar vein, this is going to be old news to that that many people on this forum. But the interval from Valerian to Gallienus, with the attendant beginnnings, anyway, of a fully functional dynastic element, was the exception that proves the rule. Whether usurpation was directly involved (as it was, often as not), the common denominator ran heavily to assassination, only occasionally 'relieved' by death in battle on the frontiers. Thank you, not the best time to be a reigning 'monarch.'[/QUOTE]
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