The Bastarnae were perhaps involved in the Dacian Wars of Domitian ( 86-88 ) and Trajan ( 101-102 and 105-106 ), since these took place in the lower Danube region and it is known that both sides were supported by neighbouring indigenous tribes.

Edward Bishop Elliott, in the Horae Apocalypticae ( 1862 ), argues that John wrote the book in exile on Patmos " at the close of the reign of Domitian ; that is near the end of the year 95 or beginning of 96 ".

Brian Jones concludes in The Emperor Domitian that assessing the true nature of Domitian's personality is inherently complicated by the bias of the surviving sources.

It is not known whether Domitian had other children, but he did not marry again.

Domitian is also credited on the easternmost Roman evidence known, the rock inscription near Boyukdash mountain, in present-day Azerbaijan.

The classic view of Domitian is usually negative, since most of the antique sources were related to the Senatorial or aristocratic class, with which Domitian had a notoriously difficult relation.

His De Vita Caesarum is the source of much of what is known of Domitian.

Although his text is predominantly negative, it neither exclusively condemns nor praises Domitian, and asserts that his rule started well, but gradually declined into terror.

Although Tacitus is usually considered to be the most reliable author of this era, his views on Domitian are complicated by the fact that his father-in-law, Gnaeus Julius Agricola, may have been a personal enemy of the Emperor.

Graham Stanton rejects Petrine authorship because 1 Peter was most likely written during the reign of Domitian in AD 81, which is when he believes widespread Christian persecution began, which is long after the death of Peter.

One common supposition is that 1 Peter was written during the reign of Domitian ( AD 81-96 ).

Biblical scholar Paul Achtemeier believes that persecution of Christians by Domitian would have been in character, but points out that there is no evidence of official policy targeted specifically at Christians.

If Christians were persecuted, it is likely to have been part of Domitian ’ s larger policy suppressing all opposition to his self-proclaimed divinity.

Duane Warden believes that Domitian ’ s unpopularity even among Romans renders it highly unlikely that his actions would have great influence in the provinces, especially those under the direct supervision of the senate such as Asia ( one of the provinces 1 Peter is addressed to ).

Another contemporary chronicler, Procopius, compares Justinian's appearance to that of tyrannical Emperor Domitian, although this is probably slander.

The next work by Josephus is his twenty-one volume Antiquities of the Jews, completed during the last year of the reign of the Emperor Flavius Domitian ( between 1. 9. 93 and 14. 3. 94, cf.

The point of the work is to describe the deaths of the persecutors of Christians: Nero, Domitian, Decius, Valerian, Aurelian, and the contemporaries of Lactantius himself, Diocletian, Maximian, Galerius, and Maximinus.

For between Nero and Domitian there is no mention of any persecution of the Roman Church ; and Irenaeus ( 1. c., III, iv, 3 ) from among the early Roman bishops designates only Telesphorus as a glorious martyr.

* 96 – Nerva is proclaimed Roman Emperor after Domitian is assassinated.

Roman Emperor Augustus referred to his relation to the deified adoptive father, Julius Caesar as " son of a god " via the term divi filius which was later also used by Domitian and is distinct from the use of Son of God in the New Testament.

Domitian is not a soldier like his two predecessors, and his administration is directed towards the reinforcement of a monarchy.

Domitian then wrote to Cerialis personally, suggesting he hand over command of his army but, once again, he was snubbed.

Once again, Domitian acquitted himself of this task dutifully, and with care.

The abuses reappeared under Domitian ; the delators, with whom Vespasian had not interfered, although he had abolished trials for majestas, were again banished by Trajan, and threatened with capital punishment in an edict of Constantine ; but delating lasted till the end of the 4th century.

Domitian rebuilt the Pantheon, which burned again in 110.

A question arose in the time of Domitian between the inhabitants of Falerio and Firmum as to land which had been taken out of the territory of the latter ( which was recolonized by the triumvirs ), and, though not distributed to the new settlers, had not been given back again to the people of Firmum.

Domitian immediately began rebuilding the temple, again on the same foundations, but with the most lavish superstructure yet.

* Marcus Aquillius Regulus, one of the delatores, or informers, in the time of Nero, and again under Domitian.

Vespasian proceeds at the head of the family, dressed as pontifex maximus, followed by Domitian with Domitia Longina, and finally Titus, also dressed in religious regalia.

Domitian also founded a new legion in 82, the Legio I Minervia, to fight against the Chatti.

A small chapel dedicated to Jupiter Conservator was also constructed near the house where Domitian had fled to safety on 20 December, 69.

Domitian also revived the practice of the imperial cult, which had fallen somewhat out of use under Vespasian.

Domitian also heavily prosecuted corruption among public officials, removing jurors if they accepted bribes and rescinding legislation when a conflict of interest was suspected.

He also led a campaign into Scotland, but from these conquests he was recalled by the Emperor Domitian, and the border gradually solidified along the line of the Stanegate in Northern England.

The Tridentine Calendar also had on 6 May a feast of " St John before the Latin Gate ", associated with a tradition recounted by Saint Jerome that St John was brought to Rome during the reign of the Emperor Domitian, and was thrown in a vat of boiling oil, from which he was miraculously preserved unharmed.

Later, it was also used to refer to Domitian ( as son of Vespasian ).

It is no mean achievement for a man to have not only survived the reigns of several disparate emperors, especially the much-detested Domitian, but also to have risen in rank throughout.

He had one younger sister, Domitilla the Younger ( b. 45 ), and one younger brother, also named Titus Flavius Domitianus ( b. 51 ), but commonly referred to as Domitian.

Philostratus also mentions emperors Nero, Vespasian, Titus, Domitian, and Nerva at various points throughout Apollonius ’ life.

After this attack, the Roman emperor Domitian personally arrived in Moesia and reorganized it in 87 AD into two provinces, divided by the river Cebrus ( Ciabrus ): to the west Moesia Superior-Upper Moesia, ( meaning up river ) and to the east Moesia Inferior-Lower Moesia ( also called Ripa Thracia ), ( from the Danube river's mouth and then upstream ).

Juvenal is thought to extensively lampoon Statius ' type of court poetry in his fourth satire on the turbot of Domitian, but he also mentions the immense popularity of Statius ' recitations in Satire 7. 82ff.

Quintilian had also survived under several emperors ; the reigns of Vespasian and Titus were relatively peaceful, but Domitian was reputed to be difficult even at the best of times.

The Roman emperor Domitian became so concerned with the Iazyges that he interrupted a campaign against Dacia to harass them and the Suebi, a Germanic tribe also dwelling along the Danube.

HA also suggests that Domitianus was descendant of the Emperor Domitian, the son of Vespasian and his wife Domitilla the Elder.

It features important sculptural and architectural creations: in the center stands the famous Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi or Fountain of the Four Rivers ( 1651 ) by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, topped by the Obelisk of Domitian, brought here in pieces from the Circus of Maxentius the church of Sant ' Agnese in Agone by Francesco Borromini, Girolamo Rainaldi, Carlo Rainaldi and others ; and the aforementioned Pamphili palace, also by Girolamo Rainaldi, that accommodates the long gallery designed by Borromini and frescoed by Pietro da Cortona.

There are also several places of archaeological interest, including the Emissario del Lago Albano and the remains of the Villa of Domitian.

The Book of Revelation, also known as The Revelation or Apocalypse of St. John, was written in the last part of the 1st century A. D., probably during the persecution of Christians carried out under either the Roman emperor Nero or Domitian.

Antiquities of the Jews (, Ioudaikē Archaiologia ; ), also Judean Antiquities ( see Ioudaios ) is a twenty-volume historiographical work composed by the Jewish historian Flavius Josephus in the thirteenth year of the reign of Roman emperor Flavius Domitian which was around 93 or 94 AD.

In 106 he also completed or restored the odeon begun in the Campus Martius under Domitian.

In two medieval Greek versions, the magical survival of John when put to tortures will be familiar to any reader of hagiography: " He was brought before Domitian, and made to drink poison, which did not hurt him: the dregs of it killed a criminal on whom it was tried: and John revived him ; he also raised a girl who was slain by an unclean spirit.