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Tacitus's Omnipresent Vespasian
Illinois Classical Studies, 2023Abstract The life and achievements of Vespasian frame and may even motivate Tacitus's historiographical agenda. The works of Tacitus that have been for so long interpreted as dark meditations on tyranny can also be understood as explorations of the origins, development, and decline of power as seen through the life of the one man who ...
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2014
This chapter explores the opportunities for the development of a relationship between Josephus and Vespasian during his incarceration, using general evidence for the nature of captivity in the Roman world to evaluate Josephus' narrative claims. A similar approach will be taken to Josephus' famous prediction that Vespasian would become emperor of the ...
William Den Hollander
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This chapter explores the opportunities for the development of a relationship between Josephus and Vespasian during his incarceration, using general evidence for the nature of captivity in the Roman world to evaluate Josephus' narrative claims. A similar approach will be taken to Josephus' famous prediction that Vespasian would become emperor of the ...
William Den Hollander
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Milestones in Judaea, From Vespasian to Constantine
Palestine Exploration Quarterly, 1978(1978). Milestones in Judaea, From Vespasian to Constantine. Palestine Exploration Quarterly: Vol. 110, No. 1, pp. 47-60.
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2015
Antiquity When the emperor Vespasian died in 79 CE, his son, Titus, succeeded him. In the next year, the Senate canonized the deceased emperor, and shortly thereafter Titus began the temple for his father. After Titus’ premature death in 81, Domitian, his brother and successor, continued the project and finished it before 87.
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Antiquity When the emperor Vespasian died in 79 CE, his son, Titus, succeeded him. In the next year, the Senate canonized the deceased emperor, and shortly thereafter Titus began the temple for his father. After Titus’ premature death in 81, Domitian, his brother and successor, continued the project and finished it before 87.
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The Adherence of Britain to Vespasian
Britannia, 1978Vexillations from all three British legions – II Augusta, IX Hispana and XX Valeria Victrix – took part on the Vitellian side in the second battle of Bedriacum in A.D. 69 (Tacitus, Histories 3, 22), but their main bodies had remained behind in the province under the cautious governorship of Vettius Bolanus (Histories 2, 97). After the capture of Fabius
Eric Birley, Leo Biek
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Vespasian's Reconstruction of Spain
Journal of Roman Studies, 1918After giving a six-months' emperor to Rome and setting the example of successful usurpation, the Spanish provinces took but little active part in the long agony which followed. It was, indeed, a contest not of provinces but of provincial garrisons, and the Spanish army was too small and remote again to take the lead; Cluvius Rufus, who succeeded Galba ...
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Journal of Roman Studies, 1973
The history of Syria and Transjordan during the period immediately after the close of the Jewish War is obscure. Yet scattered hints in the sources together with the random evidence of epigraphy and numismatics imply policies and developments of some moment. These may be presumed to have a bearing upon the annexation of Arabia by Trajan.
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The history of Syria and Transjordan during the period immediately after the close of the Jewish War is obscure. Yet scattered hints in the sources together with the random evidence of epigraphy and numismatics imply policies and developments of some moment. These may be presumed to have a bearing upon the annexation of Arabia by Trajan.
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