Guy Edward Farquhar Chilver
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Professor of Classical Studies, University of Kent at Canterbury, England, 1964β76. Author of "Vespasian" in Oxford Classical Dictionary.
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Vespasian was a Roman emperor (ad 69β79) who, though of humble birth, became the founder of the Flavian dynasty after the civil wars that followed Neroβs death in 68. His fiscal reforms and consolidation of the empire generated political stability and a vast Roman building program. Vespasian wasβ¦
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