What ever is to be done with Flavius Archippus? |
Thank you Velius Paulus for dropping another mess in my lap.
Posted by Domitian, Emperor of Rome on Sat, 09 Aug 2008 12:59:00 PST |
On the Care of the Hair |
Do you not see that I too am tall and comely to look on? And yet the same fate awaits my hair, and I bear with resignation the ageing of my locks in youth. Be assured that nothing is more pleasing tha...
Posted by Domitian, Emperor of Rome on Tue, 08 Apr 2008 09:17:00 PST |
Staying amused... |
Played a new game at dinner last evening. I had a slave stand at a distance and hold out the palm of his right hand for a mark, with the fingers spread; then I shot arrows between his fingers. My gues...
Posted by Domitian, Emperor of Rome on Mon, 07 Apr 2008 12:41:00 PST |
As if there was any doubt... |
You scored as Domitian. Being Domitian isn't easy. The only way you understand how to do things well is by doing them yourself, and indeed you do them well, but the exclusion of important men from th...
Posted by Domitian, Emperor of Rome on Tue, 17 Oct 2006 08:11:00 PST |
Jews, Jews, Jews |
Subversive tracts have been brought to my attention. The work of a militant Jew, John. One of the core followers of one Joshua Bar Joseph who was executed, seemingly as a safety precaution, during the...
Posted by Domitian, Emperor of Rome on Thu, 26 Jan 2006 02:36:00 PST |
Protecting our youth |
I spent much of my youth impoverished. Not completely destitute, mind you, but rarely with more than to make ends meet. Nero made sure that we were never without our status, but he arranged thing in w...
Posted by Domitian, Emperor of Rome on Tue, 29 Nov 2005 10:14:00 PST |
The trouble with exposing conspiracies |
It is difficult to have absolute power and not be hated. Taking swift, decisive action against those who threaten that power is an in-built necessity. Unfortunately, every act of self-preservation inc...
Posted by Domitian, Emperor of Rome on Thu, 10 Nov 2005 01:24:00 PST |
About my father's sense of humor |
As my father, the Emperor Vespasian, grew older, his natural sense of humor became increasingly perverse as did his obsession for finding new sources of revenue. Nothing like the elaborate hoaxes of C...
Posted by Domitian, Emperor of Rome on Mon, 07 Nov 2005 10:08:00 PST |
Anecdotes from the dinner table... |
Julius Agricloa's son-in-law was at dinner last night, exchanging rather amusing anecdotes with Gaius Tranquillus about the infamous Agrippina the Younger (the mother of the Emperor Nero, sister of th...
Posted by Domitian, Emperor of Rome on Fri, 04 Nov 2005 09:35:00 PST |
The Flavian legacy |
I've commissioned the building of a new arch for the head of the Via Scara. It will be christened the Arch of Titus in honor of my father and brother and their victories in the east and will depict th...
Posted by Domitian, Emperor of Rome on Thu, 13 Oct 2005 05:51:00 PST |
