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3 days ago · Vespasian’s forces met Vitellius’ troops in the Second Battle of Bedriacum in October 69 AD. This time, things went a bit differently. Vespasian’s army, though outnumbered, fought with skill and determination. They outmaneuvered Vitellius’ forces and won a decisive victory. Vitellius fled back to Rome, but his days were numbered.
4 days ago · The legions in the Middle East provinces of Judaea and Syria had acclaimed Vespasian as emperor. Vespasian had been given a special command in Judaea by Nero in 67 with the task of putting down the First Jewish–Roman War.
2 days ago · t. e. The Year of the Four Emperors, AD 69, was the first civil war of the Roman Empire, during which four emperors ruled in succession: Galba, Otho, Vitellius, and Vespasian. [1] It is considered an important interval, marking the transition from the Julio-Claudians, the first imperial dynasty, to the Flavian dynasty.
5 days ago · Vespasian (69–79 ce) created two chairs at Rome, one of Greek rhetoric and the other of Latin rhetoric. Marcus Aurelius (161–180 ce ) similarly endowed, in Athens, a chair of rhetoric and four chairs of philosophy, one for each of the four great sects— Platonism , Aristotelianism , Epicureanism , and Stoicism .
1 day ago · That is how Professor Mary Beard describes her book. In fact, it is a not particularly subtle attack on the Roman Empire and the emperors of the first three hundred years. The ‘bad, mad, sad’ emperors receive top billing – above all, Elagabalus. Elagabalus was a 14-year-old boy whose supposedly wild reign of debauchery and excesses lasted ...
2 days ago · But all the changes that occurred during this era, beneficial as they were, brought with them the attendant evils of excessive centralization. The concentration of an empire in the hands of an emperor like Commodus (180–192)—juvenile, incompetent, and decadent—was enough to steer it toward decline.
5 days ago · Vespasian is said to have granted the Latin right to all the communities of Spain, and, although that is almost certainly an exaggeration, epigraphic evidence from towns in Baetica (especially a long inscription on six bronze tablets from Irni [near Algámitas, Sevilla] unearthed in 1981) reveals the existence of a general charter for those ...
