Titus_Flavius_Vespasian

Titus Flavius Vespasian Titus Flavius Vespasian was well known for restoring peace and stability to an empire in disarray following the death of Nero in A.D. 68. In the process he established the Flavian dynasty as the legitimate successor to the imperial throne. Vespasian was born in the Sabine country on November 17 A.D. 9. He was the son of Titus Flavius Sabinus, a successful tax collector and banker. Both of his parents were of equestrian status. Very few details of his first fifteen years survive, but it appears that his father and mother were often away from home on business for long periods of time. As a result Vespasian’s early education came from his paternal grandmother, Tertulla. In about A.D. 25 Vespasian assumed the toga virilis and later accepted the wearing of the latus clavus and with it the senatorial path that his older brother Titus Flavius Sabinus had already chosen. While serving under the emperor Gaius, he married Flavia Domitilla, daughter of a treasury clerk and former mistress of an African knight. Flavia lacked the social standing and family connections that the politically ambitious usually sought through marriage. In any case, ad, vespasian, leadership, titus, rome, process, through, skills, people, born, after, political, learn, leaders, flavius, flavia, emperor, daughter, work, vespasian’s, under, two, things, successor, soon, son, social, senatorial, sabinus, roman, returned, restoring, responsibility, person, own