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Biography of Vespasian
Name: Vespasian
Birth Date: November 17, 9
Death Date: June 24, 79
Place of Birth: Reate, Italy
Nationality: Roman
Gender: Male
Occupations: emperor
Vespasian
The Roman emperor Vespasian (9-79) was the founder of the Flavian dynasty, which marked the shift from a narrow Roman to a broader Italian--and ultimately empirewide--participation in the leadership of the Roman Empire.Vespasian, whose full Latin name was Titus Flavius Vespasianus, was born near the little town of Reate in the Sabine backcountry of central Italy. He and his brother were the first members of the family to reach senatorial rank. After a distinguished but by no means spectacular career, including military service on the Rhine and in Britain, Vespasian was chosen by Nero to stamp out a revolt in Judea, as much because of his lack of political significance (due to his family background) as because of his military talents. Again, in Judea he exhibited firm competence rather than dashing brilliance.With the death of Nero (68) the imperial Julio-Claudian dynasty became extinct, and there began a dizzying …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…administration as well as for security and so began a process of rectification, seeking frontiers that were secure, short, and with good communications. His best-known move was into southwestern Germany to shorten the Rhine-Danube frontier, but he made similar moves elsewhere. He also established great, permanent military posts for administration as well as defense.Vespasian secured the succession by making his son Titus virtually coemperor and died peacefully in 79, an admirable if not a lovable emperor. Titus promptly had him deified. Further Reading The best source on Vespasian is Tacitus's Histories, but it breaks off after the first year. Suetonius's biography in Lives of the Twelve Caesars is the most complete account but is more interested in the man than in the emperor. For Vespasian and the Jews see Josephus's The Jewish War and Antiquities of the Jews. Among modern works the best is Bernard W. Henderson, Five Roman Emperors (1927).
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