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 ...

- Emperor of Rome and founder of the Flavian dynasty who consolidated Roman rule in Germany and Britain and reformed the army and brought prosperity to the empire; began the construction of the ...

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 ...