Titus Flavianus

39 – 81 · Generation VI · Roman emperor (r. AD 79–81) · Flavian

Titus (AD 39 – AD 81). Roman emperor (r. AD 79–81). Took Jerusalem in 70; his two-year reign weathered Vesuvius, a fire and a plague. He learned war under his father in Judaea, and when Vespasian left to contend for the empire it was Titus who finished the rebellion — the razing of the Second Temple and the triumph voted him are commemorated on the Arch of Titus, which still stands. During his father’s reign he served as prefect of the Praetorian Guard, where he gained a certain notoriety, and his affair with the Jewish queen Berenice was a running controversy in Rome. The doubts about his character dissolved once he ruled: the first emperor ever to succeed his biological father, he governed to great acclaim, and Suetonius and other contemporaries counted him among the good emperors, remembered for open-handed generosity when disaster struck. He died of a fever and was deified by the Senate.

One of 4 people of Flavian (9–96) in this archive. Vespasian and his two sons — the house that closed the year of four emperors.

Parents

Vespasian Flavianus (9 – 79)
Domitilla the Elder (15 – 66)

Siblings

Domitian Flavianus (51 – 96)