Vespasian, Titus’s father, and his brother Titus Flavius Sabinus were the first Flavians to reach senatorial rank. But Vespasian did well for himself under the Julio-Claudian emperors Gaius ...

He was Roman social mobility incarnate. His full name was Titus Flavius Sabinus Vespasianus and after his death, like all deceased emperors, he was worshipped as a god. He started out his life in ...