Domitian the Younger
Domitianus junior (with full name most likely Titus Flavius Domitianus ; * around 90 probably in Rome , † after May 95) was the adoptive son of his older brother Vespasianus and possible heir to the throne of the Roman emperor Domitian in 95 .
Life
Domitianus - his birth name is unknown - was a son of Titus Flavius Clemens , a cousin of Emperor Domitian and consul of the year 95, and Domitilla . After a biological son of Domitian died in 82 and the emperor was subsequently denied a family owner, the sons of Clemens were entrusted to the education of the rhetor Quintilian around 92 at the imperial court and officially adopted in early 95 at the latest. It is not known whether the two boys were also given the nickname or title Caesar .
Clemens fell from grace in May 95 and was executed, perhaps because of sympathy with Christianity . After that, the trace of his sons, who were no longer considered as heir to the throne, is lost. A few months later, Domitian himself fell victim to an assassination attempt, and with him his adopted sons are likely to have fallen victim to the damnatio memoriae .
swell
- Quintilian , Institutio Oratoria 4, Praefatio 2, 3 .
- Suetonius , Domitian 15.1 .
literature
- Dietmar Kienast : Diva Domitilla. In: Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 76, 1989, pp. 141–147 ( PDF .).
- Wolfgang Kuhoff : Flavius Clemens, T (itus). In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 20, Bautz, Nordhausen 2002, ISBN 3-88309-091-3 , Sp. 503-519.
Remarks
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| SURNAME | Domitian the Younger |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Domitianus junior; Titus Flavius Domitianus (full name, uncertain) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Adopted son of the Roman emperor Domitian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | at 90 |
| DATE OF DEATH | after May 95 |