Diocletian announced that he was the son of Jupiter, requiring all citizens to sacrifice to him and making assassination tantamount to sacrilege. He assigned Maximian to the junior deity Hercules to reinforce his own supremacy, and this policy brought him into direct conflict with Christians who refused to worship him.
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Diocletian announced that he was the son of Jupiter, requiring all citizens to sacrifice to him and making assassination tantamount to sacrilege. He assigned Maximian to the junior deity Hercules to reinforce his own supremacy, and this policy brought him into direct conflict with Christians who refused to worship him.
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