[NewsyHacker]

Historians today tend to trace the ultimate fall of the Roman Empire to the multiple crises of the third century, even if the name of the empire limped on for a couple of centuries more. So AD 293 is quite a late date, on the threshold to a new era. From the viewpoint of modern historians, it is hard to understand how Italian Fascism could have seen anything that late as worth being proud of and emulating.

[ffgjgf1]

> trace the ultimate fall of the Roman Empire to

Or the plague and the subsequent Arab invasions. The empire was rebounded several times from near collapse after the 300s

[NewsyHacker]

The Western Empire was the only Roman Empire that the Italian Fascists ever really cared about. Early Byzantium was totally foreign to their mythology.

[082349872349872]

It's much easier to understand if one doesn't assume that Fascism ever cared about academic truth.

[lnxg33k1]

Probably you're right, they just needed something widely known to make people feel some sort of national identity/united/proud and control them better