General Resources

3.1 The Year of the Four Emperors

Podcasts

History of Rome – Year of the Four Emperors

History of Rome – Galba and Otho

History of Rome – Otho and Vitellius

History of Rome – Vitellius and Vespasian

3.2 The Nature of the Principate

Useful websites

Vespasian (Encyclopaedia Britannica)

Titus (Encyclopaedia Britannica)

Domitian (Encyclopaedia Britannica)

YouTube

Timeline Documentary – Vespasian: The Path to Power 

Podcasts

History of Rome – What Time Is It? (Domitian AD 89-96)

3.3 The Personalities of Vespasian, Titus and Domitian

Podcasts

History of Rome – The Only Man Who Improved (Vespasian)

History of Rome – Friends, I Have Wasted a Day! (Titus)

History of Rome – The Forgotten Son (Domitian)

3.4 Propaganda: Its Role in Creating and Supporting the Dynasty

YouTube

Colosseum - General Documentary

Podcast

History of Rome – Mock Triumphs (Domitian)

Lecture Series

The Colosseum and the Flavian Dynasty (Yale Lecture Series)

The Jewish Wars, the Flavian Dynasty, and the Arch of Titus (Yale Lecture Series)

The Arch of Titus: Triumph and Tomb (Yale Lecture Series)

3.5 Religion: Its Role in the Principate and Roman Society

Useful Website

Online Text Version of Kenneth Scott’s Imperial Cult under the Flavians (1975)

YouTube

Rome – A History of the Eternal City (Part 1)

Lecture Series

Domitian as Dominus et Deus in the Palatine Palace