Nov 19, 2024
In July, Vespasian, Mucianus, Titus, and the senior officers of the legions, together with the potentates from around the region who supported the Flavian cause, met at Beirut to formulate precise plans. Their basic strategy was the blockade of Italy. If you're seeing...
Nov 2, 2024
Vespasian slowly builds his alliance across the eastern part of the empire, being hailed as Lord Caesar, Augustus, the saviour and benefactor of Rome. His reasons for challenging Vitellius aren’t entirely clear but we suspect it has a lot to do with the ambition...
Oct 17, 2024
It’s time to do a bio on Titus Flavius Vespasianus. He wasn’t very ambitious as a young man and only joined the Cursus Honorum because his mother drove him to it through sarcasm, constantly taunting him that he wasn’t as good as his older brother. He...
Oct 7, 2024
After arriving in Rome in June 69, Vitellius only had a few weeks to warm up the throne before Vespasian, in Alexandria, announced that he was opposing him. Unfortunately, he seems to have quickly lost of the support of his top two commanders, the kingmakers, Caecina...
Sep 18, 2024
Vitellius needs to decide what to do with Otho’s old troops in Italy, many of whom still regarded their defeat as one of treachery. And now that the game was really just about anyone being able to create an emperor, there were numerous candidates still...
Sep 8, 2024
Vitellius started his march towards Galba / Otho about 8 weeks after he sent Valens and Caecina. Along the way, he got news that he was the new Emperor. But it wasn’t all smooth sailing – governors were murdered, barbarians were revolting, traitors were...
