Avera, and welcome to Emperor 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.

I'm an lecturer in ancient Mediterranean studies at Latrobe University.

Before we delve proper into Rome's civil war and the Flavian dynasty,

we now take a moment to tell you about the sources we'll be using

and the books you could track down if you want to do some additional reading.

Here's Rianna Evans. When we look at the Flavians we've still got the biographies of Suetonius to depend upon. So we've been looking at him all the way along. He gave us biographies of all the Julia-Claudean emperors. Then we had the year of the four

emperors and he gives us a biography even for those very short-lived

emperors and he's going to complete his series of biographies with the

Flavians. So that is Vespasian, Titus and Domition.

Apart from that things do start to get a little bit patchy in some ways.

We don't have as much narrative history. So we don't have something like

Tacitus's Annals, which even though it's fragmentary, we have a lot of narrative about people like

Tiberius.

Tacidas in fact did write a history that went all the way to the end of the Flavians.

It's called the histories and we've mentioned it before when we were looking at the year of

the four emperors and that's because all we've got of it is the beginning of that civil war and then it dies out in book five and we don't have the rest of the plavians we have a little bit of the

beginning that would be really nice to have more of Tacitus' histories.

Right so specifically Tacitus covers up to what are we talking Vespasian? Very, very early. Very early,

Vespasian. Really we're still in the conflict of 69. Okay. So no he doesn't get

into that. Vitalius? Yeah. He does talk about the last Flavian emperor,

de Mission in his short biography, Ogrickola.

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