TY - GEN N2 - Civil war and usurpation were endemic to the later Roman Empire, with no fewer than 37 men claiming imperial power between 284 and 395 AD. This volume constructs a comprehensive history of civil war in this period through the ways in which successive dynasties manipulated history to legitimate themselves and to discredit their predecessors. AB - Civil war and usurpation were endemic to the later Roman Empire, with no fewer than 37 men claiming imperial power between 284 and 395 AD. This volume constructs a comprehensive history of civil war in this period through the ways in which successive dynasties manipulated history to legitimate themselves and to discredit their predecessors. T1 - Emperors and usurpers in the later Roman empire :civil war, panegyric, and the construction of legitimacy / AU - Omissi, Adrastos, ET - First edition. CN - Oxford Scholarship Online CN - DG311 ID - 837572 KW - Civil war KW - Laudatory poetry, Latin SN - 9780191863516 TI - Emperors and usurpers in the later Roman empire :civil war, panegyric, and the construction of legitimacy / LK - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198824824.001.0001 UR - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198824824.001.0001 ER -