Vespasian
c. 9 CE–c. 79 CE · Falacrinae (near Rieti)
Vespasian (born 17 November 9 CE at Falacrinae in the Sabine country northeast of Rome; died 79 CE at Aquae Cutiliae near Reate) founded the Flavian dynasty and stabilized the empire after the civil war of the "Year of the Four Emperors," beginning construction of the Colosseum. Before his accession he was the general dispatched by Nero in 66/67 CE to suppress the First Jewish Revolt, subduing Galilee before the bid for the throne took him to Rome. The Second Temple in Jerusalem was destroyed in 70 CE during his reign, in the siege led by his son Titus, after which Jewish religious life gradually re-centered on rabbinic study. Rabbinic tradition (Talmud, Gittin 56a–b) recounts that Rabban Yochanan ben Zakkai, smuggled out of besieged Jerusalem, met Vespasian, foretold his rise to emperor, and obtained leave to establish a center of learning at Yavneh.
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