Flavians

The Flavians were an entirely different breed from their Julio-Claudian predecessors, scions not of a great aristocratic clan but of the Italian middle class.

Caesars’ Wives Annelise Freisenbruch 2010

(The Flavians were a close family but Domitian Caesar was a squit, so who could blame them?)

A Body In The Bath House Davis, Lindsey 2001

The Flavians were the second dynasty of Roman emperors.

About.com Ancient / Classical History 2008

But under the Flavians hairdressers achieved new flights of fantasy with the birth of the so-called Toupetfrisur, a style characterized by a high beehive of closely woven curls, whose honeycombed façades have been compared to sea sponges and tortellini pasta.59

Caesars’ Wives Annelise Freisenbruch 2010

The stench of corruption lingered over the Flavians, and something needed to be done about it if they were not to be lumped together with the worst of the Julio-Claudians.46

Caesars’ Wives Annelise Freisenbruch 2010

We might wonder why the socially conservative Flavians, who in many respects sought to disassociate themselves from the extravagant excesses of the previous regime, would adopt what looks to our eyes so frivolous a hairstyle as the Toupetfrisur.

Caesars’ Wives Annelise Freisenbruch 2010

It also provided the provincial Flavians with a valuable tie to an old, respected Roman family of unimpeachable lineage.34

Caesars’ Wives Annelise Freisenbruch 2010

In the empire at large, Flavians and Antonines, like the better Julio-Claudians, aimed at stability in order that its inhabitants might live in security and self-respect.

The Volokh Conspiracy » How Federal is Star Trek’s Federation? 2007

Then was the Jewish War and the Flavians curiously missing Domitian altogether, but the episode was really about the Jewish war more than the emperors themselves.

Archive 2006-11-01 2006

Then was the Jewish War and the Flavians curiously missing Domitian altogether, but the episode was really about the Jewish war more than the emperors themselves.

BBC's Ancient Rome 2006