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We'll be recording these and they'll be going out on air

after demission, so sometime in January.

And now.

Are they and welcome to Emperors of Rome, a podcast about the rulers of the ancient Roman Empire.

I'm your host Matt Smith and with me as always is Dr. Rianna Evans, a lecturer in ancient Mediterranean studies at Latrobe University.

This is episode X, X, X, V I, the debut of Demission. With the death of Titus with no air, he now leaves his brother

Domission to become the next emperor. But before we get to that point, who exactly is Domission? And what happens in his youth that shapes the emperor

that he is to become. Here's Rianna Evans.

Demission was born as Titus Flavius de Michionus in 51 CE on the 24th of October so we are thinking of having a

party because we're recording this before that and he was born Rome, right in the center of Rome in a building

which will eventually become the temple that he dedicates to Vespasian and Titus.

On a street which is called in translation,

Pomegranate Street, it's a great name.

So when we're talking about Domition as a historical figure,

what sources do we have to deal with?

We have Suetonius of course,

but I'm very sad to say that this is the last emperor that we're looking at

where we can use Suetonius,

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