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Diocletian's Palace and Split: Transferring Ideas from a Maritime Villa to a Christian City

Diocletian was an avid builder, even passionately oppresive in his ways, as we may interpret the'' cupiditas aedificandi ''of his Christian critic Lactantius(De mort. 28, 1). The emperor would feel vindicated, if he could see his retirement office today. In Split, he would find his memory intact, as well as walls and the ceremonial buildings that really mattered to him. It may be ironic but not surprising that those same buildings mattered greatly to the Christian in inhabitants and to Salonian refugess three hundred years later. They still matter to all of us, not easily giving up all of their secrets and letting us play with a ''multitude of associations''.

Diocletian palace; Split; maritime villa; 1st-12th c. AD

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