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Measure content performance. Develop and improve products. List of Partners vendors. Share Flipboard Email. Ancient History and Latin Expert. Gill is a Latinist, writer, and teacher of ancient history and Latin. Updated October 23, Featured Video. Cite this Article Format. He reigned alone, after his father's death for only three years, but during that time, two notable disasters occurred. First, the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum were destroyed by the eruption of Mt.
Second, a great fire in Rome destroyed much of the capital. In both instances Titus generously provided for the effected citizens. He is also remembered for putting an end to persecutions for treason that had frequently occurred, especially in the years before Vespasian. Titus becomes sole ruler. Great fire in Rome. Founder of Flavian dynasty. Agricola Roman general and statesman.
Governor of Britain. Pacified Wales. We are in 57 and he is only 18 years old. It is found ten years later as legate of the fifteenth legion, in Judea.
A legate is a superior officer commanding one of the Roman legions. A kind of general, if we want to compare with the existing functions nowadays. He was under the orders of his father who, close to the emperor Claude, had been able to obtain important positions in the Roman Empire.
At the post of legate he had to face the Jewish revolt against the Romans, the first of the three. It is called the "great revolt", it took place between 66 and In parallel Titus will develop diplomacy talents and organizing meetings with Mucian, legate of Syria, Flavien support to the post of legate then to that of emperor when the post became vacant following the death of Nero.
It is essentially this diplomatic action that allowed the arrival of the Flavian dynasty to power, whether with Mucian or other Eastern rulers. In 70 he laid siege to the city of Jerusalem, which he managed to conquer.
During the final attack Herod's temple is burned down and the city largely destroyed. In Rome he was built a triumphal arch that he used on his return to the capital. This monument, known nowadays as the Arch of Titus, is still in good condition, in the center of Rome. From 70 Titus moved to Rome and is associated with the closest to power, positioning himself with his brother at the side of his father.
The two brothers received the title of "Prince of Youth", a title given to the children of the emperor since Caesar and which marked their entry into Roman chivalry. He quickly obtained the tribunitian power, the power granted to the tribunes of the plebs, the imperium military power outside Rome and civil power in Rome , then, in 74, censor in charge of the census.
From 70 to 79 he also serves as consuls magistrates. Finally in 72 he became commander of the Praetorian Guard in Rome prefect of the Praetorium. When his father died in 79 he took over. He is the first son to succeed his father since Augustus, and it will not be the case either before a century.
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