Political and Military Motives of the Roman Emperor's Visit to Egypt (From Augustus to Diocletian)

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1 History department, Faculty of Women, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt

2 Assistant Professor of Greek and Roman History and Civilization, Faculty of Women, Ain Shams University

3 Professor of Papyrology and Greek and Latin Studies, Faculty of Arts, Ain Shams University

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Some Roman emperors visited Egypt, or wanted to visit, for political or military reasons. None of the Julio-Claudian emperors visited Egypt; Although Nero had prepared to visit her, his visit did not materialize. Vespasian was the first Roman emperor to actually visit Egypt, and his main objective of that visit was to confirm his status as emperor and pressure his rivals by controlling Rome's supply of grain. Hadrian also visited Egypt twice, one of them in the year 117 AD, the purpose of which was to secure his imperial position; The second was in 130 AD, and it was among his inspection tours to the eastern provinces of the empire. After that, Antoninus Pius and Marcus Aurelius visited Egypt due to disturbances in it. Emperors of the Severan dynasty also visited Egypt: Septimius Severus and his son Caracalla; Severus Alexander prepared to visit Egypt, but his visit did not materialize. In the period of the crisis of the third century AD, Aurelian visited Egypt because of a severe disturbance in it. During the reign of Diocletian, Galerius visited Egypt in order to suppress a revolt in Qift; Diocletian also visited Egypt to suppress a revolt, where he personally supervised the siege of the city of Alexandria.

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Volume 1, Issue 12 - Serial Number 12
twelfth human and social sciences
December 2021
Pages 144-171

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