[Ansteorra] found keys at BG30

[John Atkinson]

On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 9:01 PM, Bill Perkins
<bill.perkins at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Using these definitions, especially "one who rules alone", co-autocrat is an
> oxymoronic term.  In the case of more than one person "running" the event, I
> prefer co-event stewards.  But, then again, I prefer "event steward," since
> a person running an event is not wholly independent of the local group
> reporting structure.

Roman title structure got complicated sometimes.  On occasion, there
were as many as five crowned Autocrats.  Without a strong hereditary
principle for the throne, the easiest was to attempt to ensure
succession of one's children was have them crowned before you die,
thus when you die there's already an Autocrat in place so there
shouldn't be a succession struggle.

Like every other expedient to deal with the lack of a constitutional
succession procedure, it was only sometimes successful.

Ioannnes
-- 
"Thousands of Sarmatians, Thousands of Franks, we've slain them again
and again.  We're looking for thousands of Persians."
--Vita Aureliani