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Flavian Dynasty

Flavian Dynasty. By: Shelby Cunniff and Jasmine Griffith. Background. Julio- Claudians was the empire right before the Flavian Dynasty The Julio- Claudians were Roman aristocracy

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Flavian Dynasty

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  1. Flavian Dynasty By: Shelby Cunniff and Jasmine Griffith

  2. Background • Julio-Claudians was the empire right before the Flavian Dynasty • The Julio-Claudians were Roman aristocracy • For every new empire they “lose” an empire. For example there was the Year of Four Emperors and before that Five. Now there is Three and after One and so on.

  3. Vespasian • First ruler in the Flavian Dynasty • Ruled from 69-79 AD • He reestablished legions, social conditions, and the treasury • Showed great moderation and common sense • Very greedy individual • He increased taxation to restore public finances • Guaranteed a stable succession with his sons Titus and Domitian, both able administrators. • Recruited officers that brought personal wealth • Also recruited Italian and provincial members that brough knowledge to the civil service

  4. Vespasian cont… • Brought peace to the roman empire • Began a dynastic "public relations campaign" with a glorious victory celebrating the Flavian success over Judaea • Became a general because of his rebellion in Judea • Inaugurated in a motivated public building program in the name of the Flavian Dynasty

  5. Titus One of Vespasian's son Ruled from 79-81 AD Became ruler when father died on June 24, 79AD Had enough military training to be a legatus legionis

  6. Titus’s coin This is a portrait of Titus because he was the ruler. This is a palm tree with a male standing and a female sitting next to it. This recalls the triumph Titus celebrated 10 years earlier

  7. Titus cont… • Even though his reign was very short he had many catastrophes during occurred while he was emperor • For example the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius • He is mostly remembered for destroying Jerusalem and the temple in 79 AD • He also completed the Amphiteatrum Flavium in 80 AD • Titus died being very popular and having the prestige of the Flavian dynasty undiminished

  8. Domitian • Younger brother of Titus and also the other son of Vespasian • A tolalitarian princeps with a complicated personality • He inherited the passion for the building program • Responsible for the erecting of the Arch of Titus • Signed a peace treaty with Decebalus, the Dacian king, in 89 A.D • He strained the resources of the imperial treasury to pay for the official monuments

  9. Domition cont… • He got engaged in a vicious executions and became aggravated which lead to his death • His fatal mistake in 69AD was also abandoning the Augustan titles of “first citizen” and “first among equals” because he wanted to appeal the gods • He miscalculated Roman tolerance and perceived as too close to cosmic kingship • The Senate refused to praise Domition after his death. He had all of his records and accomplishments expunged from the city to erase his memory • His remains wasn’t reunited with he father’s and brother’s in the Roman Pantheon so the memory of the Flavian Dynasty was destroyed.

  10. Major Accomplishments During the Flavian Period Vespasian Coliseum Arch of Titus

  11. Accomplishments cont… • Vespasian and his two sons were Italian gentry. They succeeded in restoring stability to Rome after the reign of Nero (r. 54–68 A.D.) and the civil wars that only wreaked mayhem on the empire, and particularly on Italy itself. • Vespasian dedicated his famous building now called the coliseum to his son Titus • One of the most famous Roman structures was constructed by Titus. It is called the Arch of Titus in remembrance of him. • Successful wars was also an accomplishment during th Flavian dynasty

  12. Devastations • In 79 AD Pompeii and the towns along the shore of the Bay of Naples were buried by the eruptions of Mount Vesuvius • A fire broke out during Titus’s reign in Rome in 80 AD • The death of Domitian was the end to the Flavian dynasty

  13. Source Citation • Department of Greek and Roman Art. "The Flavian Dynasty (69–96)". In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/flav/hd_flav.htm(October 2000) • http://www.unvr.com/early-empire/flavian-dynasty.php • http://www.lsa.umich.edu/kelsey/galleries/Exhibits/Empire2/intro/flavians.html • http://ocw.nd.edu/classics/history-of-ancient-rome/lectures-1/theflavian-dynasty

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