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Chapter XXIII - Ludi Honorem Vespasiani - Anno Quattuor Imperatorum - Ultima Partem

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© Copyright Vittorio Carvelli 2016 [Games in Honour of Vespasian] (The Year of the Four Emperors - Final Part) © Copyright Vittorio Carvelli 2016 warning : this section features nudity,  explicit sexuality and  extreme violence  in images and text - do not view if you may be offended to view images full size open in a new tab Events in the Wider World Then everything, for both Rome, and for Marcus, Gracchus and the villa, seemed to come to  a standstill. Vespasian lingered in Alexandria - a latter day, and rather corpulent and elderly ' Alexander '. There were still problems in Judea - and Vespasian wisely left his very competent son, Titus (see previous Chapter) to sort things out. Temple of Jerusalem and Antonia Fortress The Roman province of Iūdaea (Judea - Greek: Ἰουδαία), incorporated the regions of Judea, Samaria and Idumea, and extended over parts of the former regions of the Hasmonean and Herodian kingdoms of Israel. It was named after Herod Archelaus's Tetrarchy of