Vespasian (9 – 79 AD / ruled 69 – 79 AD) worked hard to restore law, order and self-respect to Rome after the civil war. He established the new, Flavian dynasty. Born to a Roman knight and tax ...

The two sons of Vespasian Titus and Domitian (ruled 79 – 81 AD, and 81 – 96 AD respectively) could not have been more different as emperors. Although Titus had a reputation for ruthlessness ...

But blink and you may get your epics confused. It is Rome, in the year 79AD, and Anthony Hopkins portrays the elderly Emperor Vespasian, who rose to power following the civil war that followed the ...