When was titus emperor

His brother Domitian constantly plotted against Titus, who never directly ordered anyone killed and attacked the practice of informants. Titus died after contracting a fever in the countryside after complaining that he had only one sin on his conscience. He was mourned as an emperor with the best interests of his people at heart.

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He was brought up in the court of Emperor Claudius as a companion to the emperor's son, Britannicus. Titus enjoyed a successful military career and in 67 AD went with his father to suppress the Jewish Revolt. In 69 AD, Vespasian returned to Rome to assert his claim for the imperial throne, leaving Titus to continue the campaign.

In 70 AD, Jerusalem was sacked, the Jewish temple was destroyed and much of the population killed or dispersed. When Titus returned to Rome, Vespasian groomed him for the succession, sharing his powers with him to an unprecedented degree.

Amazingly, they won, slaughtering the Roman army there. In Jerusalem, the temple captain signified solidarity with the revolt by stopping the daily sacrifices to Caesar. Soon all Jerusalem was in an uproar, expelling or killing the Roman troops.

Then all Judea was in revolt; then Galilee. Cestius Callus, the Roman governor of the region, marched from Syria with twenty thousand soldiers. He besieged Jerusalem for six months, yet failed. He left six thousand dead Roman soldiers, not to mention weaponry that the Jewish defenders picked up and used. Emperor Nero then sent Vespasian, a decorated general, to quell the Judean rebellion.

Vespasian put down the opposition in Galilee, then in Transjordan, then in Idumea. He circled in on Jerusalem. But before the coup de grace , Nero died. Vespasian became embroiled in a leadership struggle that concluded with the eastern armies calling for him to be emperor. One of his first imperial acts was to appoint his son Titus to conduct the Jewish War. By now, Jerusalem was isolated from the rest of the nation, and factions within the city fought over strategies of defense.

As the siege wore on, people began dying from starvation and plague. He grew up in the company of Britannicus, son of Emperor Claudius and shared his training. This meant Titus had enough military training and was ready to be a legatus legionis when his father Vespasian received his Judaean command. She later came to Rome where Titus continued his affair with her until he became emperor.

In 69 A. Titus put an end to the revolt in Judaea by conquering Jerusalem and destroying the Temple; so he shared the triumph with Vespasian when he returned to Rome in June 71 A. Titus subsequently shared 7 joint consulships with his father and held other offices, including that of praetorian prefect. When Vespasian died on June 24, 79 A. When Titus inaugurated the Flavian Amphitheater in 80 A. In his biography of Titus, Suetonius says Titus had been suspected of riotous living and greed, perhaps forgery, and people feared he would be another Nero.

Instead, he put on lavish games for the people. He banished informers, treated senators well, and helped out victims of fire, plague, and volcano. Titus was, therefore, remembered fondly for his short reign. Domitian a possible fratricide commissioned an Arch of Titus, honoring the deified Titus and commemorating the Flavians' sack of Jerusalem.