The two sons of Vespasian Titus and Domitian (ruled 79 – 81 AD, and 81 – 96 AD respectively) could not have been more different as emperors. Although Titus had a reputation for ruthlessness ...

Titus Caesar Vespasianus ruled Rome for just two years from 79-81 CE after the death of his father Vespasian, the founder of ...

Domitian’s murder marked the end of the Flavian dynasty and changed the rules of succession. Nerva and Trajan (ruled 96 – 98 AD, 98 – 117 AD) were not born to rule, but were chosen for the job.

The drama unfolds as it becomes crucial to determine which of his two sons, Titus or Domitian, will succeed him, each with ...

Domitian, who terrorised Rome’s Senate as he sank into paranoia, used to sit in solitude stabbing flies to death with a sharpened pen. Or so Suetonius tells us in his scurrilous, meticulously ...

Quinn convincingly conjures the terrifying reign of Emperor Domitian in her solid debut that follows the travails of Thea, a slave girl and mistress to the emperor. While she is tormented by ...