Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • VESPASIAN
  • CONTENTS
  • PLATES
  • MAPS
  • ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  • ABBREVIATIONS
  • KEY DATES
  • INTRODUCTION
  • 1 A NEW MAN IN POLITICS
  • 2 VESPASIAN AND THE ARISTOCRACY
  • 3 FROM NERO'S COURT TO THE WALLS OF JERUSALEM
  • Appendix: Josephus' dates for the Jewish War
  • 4 THE BID FOR EMPIRE
  • 1 The year 69
  • 2 Vespasian's success
  • 5 IDEOLOGY IN ACTION
  • 6 A NEW EMPEROR AND HIS OPPONENTS
  • 7 FINANCIAL SURVIVAL
  • PLATES
  • 8 STABILIZATION
  • 9 ENHANCEMENT
  • 1 Rome and Italy
  • 2 Provinces west and east: gifts, status, Romanization, titles
  • 10 IMPERIALISM
  • 11 ELITES
  • 12 VESPASIAN AND HIS SONS
  • 13 CONCLUSION: IDEOLOGY IN THE AFTERMATH
  • NOTES
  • CONCORDANCE
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX OF PERSONS
  • INDEX OF PEOPLES AND PLACES
  • INDEX OF SUBJECTS AND TERMS.