The most important building Domitian restored was the Temple of Jupiter on the Capitoline Hill, said to have been covered with a gilded roof.

In order to justify the divine nature of the Flavian rule, Domitian emphasized connections with the chief deity Jupiter, perhaps most significantly through the impressive restoration of the Temple of Jupiter on the Capitoline Hill.

* Emperor Domitian introduces the Capitoline Games.

Domitian as Emperor ( Vatican Museums ), possibly recut from a statue of Nero.

While some recent scholars have questioned the existence of a large-scale Domitian persecution, others believe that Domitian's insistence on being treated as a god may have been a source of friction between the Church and Rome.

As Emperor, Domitian strengthened the economy by revaluing the Roman coinage, expanded the border defenses of the Empire, and initiated a massive building program to restore the damaged city of Rome.

Domitian was born in Rome on 24 October 51, the youngest son of Titus Flavius Vespasianus — commonly known as Vespasian — and Flavia Domitilla Major.

During the Jewish-Roman wars, he was likely taken under the care of his uncle Titus Flavius Sabinus II, at the time serving as city prefect of Rome ; or possibly even Marcus Cocceius Nerva, a loyal friend of the Flavians and the future successor to Domitian.

In Rome meanwhile, Domitian was placed under house arrest by Vitellius, as a safeguard against future Flavian aggression.

According to Tacitus, Mucianus was not keen on this prospect but since he considered Domitian a liability in any capacity that was entrusted to him, he preferred to keep him close at hand rather than in Rome.

Although the Senate's power had been in decline since the fall of the Republic, under Domitian the seat of power was no longer even in Rome, but rather wherever the Emperor was.

Domitian himself supported the travel of competitors from all corners of the Empire to Rome and distributed the prizes.

Although little information survives of the battles fought, enough early victories were apparently achieved for Domitian to be back in Rome by the end of 83, where he celebrated an elaborate triumph and conferred upon himself the title of Germanicus.

In 85, Agricola was recalled to Rome by Domitian, having served for more than six years as governor, longer than normal for consular legates during the Flavian era.

Fuscus successfully drove the Dacians back across the border in mid-85, prompting Domitian to return to Rome and celebrate his second triumph.

From Spain, Trajan was summoned, whilst Domitian himself came from Rome with the Praetorian Guard.

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.

* Emperor Domitian recalls Agricola back to Rome, where he is rewarded with a triumph and the governorship of the Roman province Africa, but he declines it.

* Domitian bans philosophers from Rome.

* The informers used by Domitian to support his tyranny are expelled from Rome.

Until 1960, another feast day which appeared in the General Roman Calendar is that of " St John Before the Latin Gate " on May 6, celebrating a tradition recounted by 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.

During the reign of Roman emperor Domitian after having spent time imprisoned in Rome, John was sentenced to be boiled in oil at the Colosseum.

Until 1960, another feast day which appeared in the General Roman Calendar is that of " St John Before the Latin Gate " on May 6, celebrating a tradition recounted by 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.

Nero persecuted Roman Christians after Rome burned in 64, and the congregation may have suffered further persecution under Domitian ( 81 – 96 ).

* Paris ( actor under Domitian ), actor in Rome under the emperor Domitian

In particular, he tells lengthy stories of Apollonius entering the city of Rome in disregard of Emperor Nero ’ s ban on philosophers, and later on being summoned, as a defendant, to the court of Domitian, where he defied the Emperor in blunt terms.

When emperor Domitian was murdered on September 18, 96 AD, Apollonius was said to have witnessed the event in Ephesus " about midday " on the day it happened in Rome, and told those present " Take heart, gentlemen, for the tyrant has been slain this day ...".

There is a surviving portrait of Agrippina the Elder in the Capitoline Museums in Rome.

Pope Innocent X, Capitoline Museums.

A large hieratic bronze of Innocent X by Algardi is now to be found in the Capitoline Museums.

The Judgement of Paris, Capodimonte porcelain, Capitoline Museums, Rome

1510, Capitoline Museums, Rome

At the beginning of his papacy in 1471, Sixtus IV donated several historically important Roman sculptures that founded a papal collection of art that would eventually develop into the collections of the Capitoline Museums.

The Dying Gaul, a Roman marble copy of a Hellenistic work of the late 3rd century BCE Capitoline Museums, Rome

* the Capitoline Museums, the oldest public collection of art in the world, began in 1471 when Pope Sixtus IV donated a group of important ancient sculptures to the people of Rome.

Painting by Peter Paul Rubens, c. 1616 ( Capitoline Museums ).

The Capitoline Museums: Guide.

Judgement of Paris, porcelain, Capitoline Museums, Rome

File: Bust Antinoos Musei Capitolini MC294. jpg | As Bacchus, Capitoline Museums

File: Capitoline Antinous Musei Capitolini MC741 n2. jpg | Capitoline Antinous, Capitoline Museums, from the Villa Adriana

Funerary relief of an Archigallus from Lavinium, mid-2nd century AD, Capitoline Museums, Rome.

The Dying Gaul, Capitoline Museums, Rome.

The Capitoline contains few ancient ground-level ruins, as they are almost entirely covered up by Medieval and Renaissance palaces ( now housing the Capitoline Museums ) that surround a piazza, a significant urban plan designed by Michelangelo.

The three palazzi are now home to the Capitoline Museums.

Sculpture of a camillus from the Capitoline Museums.

Soane continued his study of buildings, including Villa Lante, Palazzo Farnese, Palazzo Massimo alle Colonne, the Capitoline Museums and the Villa Albani.

To mark the 400th anniversary of the Vatican Archives, 100 original documents dating from the 8th to the 20th century were put on display from February to September 2012 in the " Lux in arcana – The Vatican Secret Archives reveals itself " exhibition held at the Capitoline Museums in Rome.

* Intelligence, Memory and Will, Capitoline Museums, Rome