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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, VII.

Demission dominates.

When we last left omission, after the death of his brother Titus, he'd finally been made

Emperor, a position which, from his perspective, always belonged to him.

So what happens when somebody who's grown up with nothing

suddenly becomes the emperor with resources to do everything and anything that

they want? Well, spoiler alert, it doesn't go that well for Rome. Here's Rianin Evans.

Once a mission became emperor, he had infinite resources to indulge all of the

excesses that he was famous for before he became emperor.

And in some ways things didn't improve, unlike what appears to have occurred with his brother

Titus, who was a bit of a party boy before he became

emperor and then became much more stable once he got that power. So Suetonius who is our main source about Domitian's character, is quite equivocal at the beginning.

He says that he had virtues and vices, and eventually the vices start to take over. So his implication is that the power

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