Domitian was Roman emperor from 81 to 96. He was the son of Vespasian and the younger brother of Titus. His 15-year reign was the longest since that of Tiberius. Domitian’s reign came to an end in 96 when he was assassinated by court officials.
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Domitian was Roman emperor from 81 to 96. He was the son of Vespasian and the younger brother of Titus. His 15-year reign was the longest since that of Tiberius. During his reign, the authoritarian nature of his rule put him at sharp odds with the Senate, whose powers he drastically curtailed. Domitian’s reign came to an end in 96 when he was assassinated by court officials. After his death, his memory was condemned to oblivion by the Senate. Modern revisionists have characterized him as a ruthless but efficient autocrat whose cultural, economic, and political programs provided the foundation of the peaceful second century. The Flavian family rose from relative obscurity to prominence in just four generations, acquiring wealth and status under the emperors of the Julio-Claudian dynasty. The Roman Empire was ruled by the Flavian gens until the Roman Civil War in the 2nd century BC, when it was replaced by the Roman Republic. The Romans were ruled by a single dynasty, the Flavians, until the fall of the Roman Empire in the 4th century BC. The last Flavian emperor, Nero, was the last member of the Flavia gens to die in office. The first Roman emperor to be assassinated was Nero in 63, during the First Jewish-Roman War, sparking what is now known as the Judas War. The Jews from the Province of Judaea revolted against Nero in 66, sparking the First Roman War. This is the first time a Roman emperor has been assassinated during his or her reign, and it is the only time two emperors have been killed in the same year.
The only other emperor to have been assassinated in his reign was Nero’s son Tiberio in 63. The second emperor, Nerva, was succeeded by his advisor Nerva the Younger in 96. The reign of Nerva was followed by the reign of his son Titus Flavius Sabinus II in 95. The emperor was assassinated in 96 by the court officials of the Praetorian Guard, who were also known as “the Cretans” or “The Cretan” or the “Cretans”, a term used by the Romans to refer to those who fought against the Romans in the wars of the 1st and 2nd centuries BC. He died in Rome on 24 October 51, the year of his birth. He had an older sister, Domitilla the Younger, and brother, also named Titus Flavio Vesp asianus. His great-grandfather had served as a centurion under Pompey during Caesar’s civil war. His military career ended in disgrace when he fled the battlefield at the Battle of Pharsalus in 48 BC. Decades of civil war contributed greatly to the demise of the old aristocracy of Rome, which a new Italian nobility gradually replaced in prominence during the early part of the1st century. He married the extremely wealthy Tertulla, whose fortune guaranteed the upward mobility of his grandfather. By marrying Vespasia Polla he allied his sons to the more prestigious gens Vespia, ensuring their elevation to senatorial rank.
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