Vespasian

Barbara Levick is Fellow and Tutor Emeritus, St. Hilda’s College, Oxford. She has published extensively on Roman history, with titles including Tiberius the Politician (Routledge, 1999), Vespasian (Routledge, 1999), The Government of the Roman Empire, second edition (Routledge, 2001), Julia Domna: Syrian Empress (Routledge, 2007) and Augustus: Image and Substance (2010).

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Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Key dates

Stemma I: The Flavian

Stemma II: The Arrecini and Julii

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Introduction

1 A new man in politics

2 Vespasian and the aristocracy: the command in Britain

3 From Nero’s court to the walls of Jerusalem

Appendix: Josephus’ dates for the Jewish War 40

4 The bid for Empire

The year 69

Vespasian’s success

5 Ideology in action

6 A new Emperor and his opponent

7 Financial survival

8 Stabilization: the winning of peace

9 Enhancement: the physical and moral restoration of the Roman world

Rome and Italy

Provinces west and east: gifts, status, Romanization, titles

10 Imperialism: Vespasian’s army and the extension of the

Empire

11 Elites

12 Vespasian and his sons

13 Conclusion: ideology in the aftermath

Notes

Concordance

Bibliography

Index