Titus

Question 1

Accession

Answer 1

Emperor from 79 - 81: only short reign
Suet: ‘reigned for … 2 years’ leading to him never surpassing his (Dio:) ‘honeymoon period’

Question 2

Personality

Answer 2

Suet: ‘Both as … private citizen … fathers colleague … venomously loathed’

as Praet prefect : Suet: conducted himself with great haughtiness and violence

Suet: Lay under suspicion … living in luxury

Suet: after Vesuvius and fire of 80, conducted with ‘the great love of a father for his child’

Question 3

Military Action

Answer 3

No proper action under his rule, though very clear action under Vespasian, notably Judean revolts:

Tacitus: ‘Rome … all its pleasures in front of him … Jerusalem must fall’

Josephus, Jewish antiquities: Burned down the temple of Judea

Question 4

Propaganda

Answer 4

Also built public Baths: Suet: ‘sometimes would bathe … baths that he had built’

Finished Flavian Amphitheatre after his father:
Suet: ‘at the dedication of his Amphitheatre’ -
Martial: every work … Caesar’s amphitheatre

Sillius Itallica:
‘Titus … shall fierce tribes in Palestine destroy’

Question 5

Religion

Answer 5

Josephus: presents both Domitian and Titus praying at the temple of Isis before the victory at Judea