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VESPASIAN
VESPASIAN





Barbara Levick





London and New York
First published 1999
by Routledge
11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE

Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada
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This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2003.
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© 1999 Barbara Levick

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Levick, Barbara.
Vespasian/Barbara Levick.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Vespasian, Emperor of Rome, 9–79. 2. Emperors—Rome—
Biography. 3. Rome—History—Vespasian, 69–79. I. Title.
1999
937′.06′092–dc21 98–52448
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To Marion Taylor
and my other friends at St Hilda’s College
CONTENTS
List of plates ix
List of maps xi
Acknowledgements xii
Abbreviations xiv
Key dates xx
Stemma I: The Flavians xxii
Stemma II: The Arrecini and Julii xxiii
Maps xxiv
Introduction 1
1 A new man in politics 4
2 Vespasian and the aristocracy: mand in Britain 14
3 From Ne