domitian

An astrologer named Asclation had earlier predicted that Domitian would die on September 18, 96 AD, and Domitian's enemies used this as a sort of nucleation point to organize his assassination.

Someone like Diocletian, Vespasian or his son Domitian wouldn't have had much trouble with interesting literature.

Both were good rulers BTW, but Titus was succeeded by Domitian (younger brother) who was a disaster and assassinated for it.

Seeing that the danger had passed, Domitian relaxed and decided to take a bath.

The Book of Revelation is generally accepted by traditional scholarship to have been written during the reign of Domitian (81–96 CE) [1].

Edward Gibbon does ascribe some positive qualities to Nero; but Domitian or Commodus after his early years, they were just plain cruel.

Suetonius devotes similar space to the sexual transgressions of Caligula, Nero, and Domitian – such behaviour is to be expected of a tyrant.

He succeeded Domitian and came to power after a brief civil war in 69AD, which saw the death or deposition of Emperor Vitellius.

Subject to the banishment of all philosophers from Rome by Emperor Domitian toward the end of the first century, Epictetus founded a school of philosophy in Nicopolis.

Roman emperor Domitian expelled the Stoic philosophers from Italy.

As the day approached Domitian became increasingly nervous.

If some Nero or Domitian were to require a hundred persons to run a race for their lives, on condition that the fifty or twenty who came in hindmost should be put to death, it would not be any diminution of the injustice that the strongest or nimblest would, except through some untoward accident, be certain to escape.

"Nero at least tried to build new baths, what has Domitian ever done for us?"

One of the most notable cases of astrology becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy has to do with the death of the emperor Domitian.

And none of those guys come close to Augustus, Domitian, or Constantine.

Domitian then had an idea, and condemned him to death by burning.