My Sons or No One

The Flavian family tree in AD 79: who in Vespasian’s family is still alive, and on whom the new dynasty rests.

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The house Vespasian built from nothing.

The father, a tax collector. The mother, Vespasia Polla.

Two sons: the elder, Sabinus, died in December AD sixty-nine, when the Capitol burned. The younger became emperor.

Vespasian’s wife, Domitilla, and their daughter did not live to see him rule.

At the emperor’s side was Caenis, until her death.

Titus, the conqueror of Jerusalem, has only one daughter, Julia.

Domitian and his wife Domitia have a little son.

Two sons and one grandson, a few years old. The whole dynasty rests on them.