The play is set during the latter days of the Roman Empire and tells the fictional story of Titus, a general in the Roman army, who is engaged in a cycle of revenge with Tamora, Queen of the Goths.

Distraught, Tamora and her two surviving sons, Demetrius and Chiron, vow revenge on Titus and his family.

Desperate for revenge, Titus orders Lucius to flee Rome and raise an army among their former enemy, the Goths.

Tamora ( as Revenge ) tells Titus that she will grant him revenge on all of his enemies if he can convince Lucius to postpone the imminent attack on Rome.

The primary source for the rape and mutilation of Lavinia, as well as Titus ' subsequent revenge, is Ovid's Metamorphoses ( c. AD 8 ), which is featured in the play itself when Lavinia uses it to help explain to Titus and Marcus what happened to her during the attack.

The arena has also been used for cinematic works such as Titus, a 1999 film adaptation of Shakespeare's revenge tragedy Titus Andronicus.

Besides Hamlet, other plays of Shakespeare's with at least some revenge elements are Titus Andronicus, Julius Caesar, and Macbeth.

The plot of " Scott Tenorman Must Die " has been compared to that of the Shakespeare tragedy Titus Andronicus, in which the humiliated protagonist also exacts revenge by feeding his enemies their own relatives.

Bran Mak Morn, King of the Picts, vows revenge on the Roman governor Titus Sulla after witnessing the crucifixion of a fellow Pict.

Titus Flavius Norbanus may have been appointed to the prefecture of Egypt, but almost certainly became prefect of the Praetorian Guard by 94, with Titus Petronius Secundus as his colleague.

In antiquity, Romans may have referred to the Colosseum by the unofficial name Amphitheatrum Caesareum ; this name could have been strictly poetic as it was not exclusive to the Colosseum ; Vespasian and Titus, builders of the Colosseum, also constructed an amphitheater of the same name in Puteoli ( modern Pozzuoli ).

Even the time in which Titus is set may not be based on a real historical period.

The reasoning for this variance is as follows: While Titus may have been the norm in the epistles, a Gentile not converted to Judaism, Paul nevertheless made an exception for Timothy, whom he circumcised and brought under the Covenant, probably because though Timothy's father was Greek, his mother was Jewish.

Marcus Claudius Marcellus, Scipio Africanus and his family, and Titus Quinctius Flamininus, may be taken as instances of the new civilization ; Cato's friends, Fabius and Flaccus, were the leading men in the faction defending the old plainness.

Three other men of appropriate rank to command legions are known to have been involved in the invasion: Vespasian's brother Titus Flavius Sabinus II and Gnaeus Hosidius Geta appear in Dio Cassius's account of the invasion ; Gnaeus Sentius Saturninus is mentioned by Eutropius, although as a former consul he may have been too senior, and perhaps accompanied Claudius later.

* Aule, Cae, Cneve, Lucie, Mamarce, Marce, Metie, Pavle, Puplie, Spurie, Tite, Thefarie, Uchtave, and Vipie may be recognized as the Latin praenomina Aulus, Gaius, Gnaeus, Lucius, Mamercus, Marcus, Mettius, Paullus, Publius, Spurius, Titus, Tiberius, Octavius, and Vibius.

Some Biblical scholars think that the Epistle of Titus, generally attributed to Paul, may state that circumcision should be discouraged among Christians (), though others believe this is merely a reference to Jews.

Titus Flavius may refer to

Titus Flavius Vespasianus may refer to two Roman emperors:

Titus Manlius Torquatus may refer to three Roman Republic consuls of the gens Manlia:

Ever since the time of Revelation, every despot or slave that has attained to power, be he violent or ignoble, has made it his first aim and his final purpose to destroy our law, and to vitiate our religion, by means of the sword, by violence, or by brute force, such as Amalek, Sisera, Sennacherib, Nebuchadnezzar, Titus, Hadrian, may their bones be ground to dust, and others like them.

In their first year of performance, they may have staged such of Shakespeare's older plays as remained in the author's possession, including Henry VI, part 2, Henry VI, part 3, as well as Titus Andronicus.

She may have been the daughter of Titus Statilius Taurus who was consul in 44 and who was forced to commit suicide in 53.

Four eclogues, formerly attributed to Titus Calpurnius Siculus, are now generally considered to be by Nemesianus, and the Praise of Hercules, sometimes printed in Claudian's works, may be by him.

In the Epistle of Paul to Titus, Paul appears to support the servitude of slaves: " Tell slaves to be submissive to their masters and to give satisfaction in every respect ; they are not to talk back, not to pilfer, but to show complete and perfect fidelity, so that in everything they may be an ornament to the doctrine of God our Savior.

Orelli supposes that this Sempronia may be the same woman who, according to Asconius, gave testimony at the trial of Titus Annius Milo in 52 B. C.

Daniel Reichart of the University of Chicago and Titus Galama of the University of Amsterdam independently analyzed GRB 970228's optical light curve, both concluding that the host object may have undergone a supernova explosion several weeks before the gamma-ray burst occurred.

Later, Violet tells Titus that her feed is severely malfunctioning, and she may die.

Titus Labienus, Caninius Rebilus, and Ovid's erstwhile friend Sabinus have been proposed, but such a wildly exaggerated figure as " Ibis " may have been a composite.

He had an older sister, Domitilla the Younger, and brother, also named Titus Flavius Vespasianus.

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.

Titus Flavius Josephus ( 37 – 100 ), also called Joseph ben Matityahu ( Biblical Hebrew: יוסף בן מתתיהו, Yosef ben Matityahu ), was a 1st-century Romano-Jewish historian and hagiographer who was born in Jerusalem-then part of Roman Judea-to a father of priestly descent and a mother who claimed royal ancestry.

Lucrece is also featured in William Shakespeare's 1594 long poem The Rape of Lucrece ; he also mentioned her in Titus Andronicus, As You Like It, and Twelfth Night ( Malvolio authenticates his fateful letter by spotting Olivia's Lucrece seal ).

The word is also used six times referring to individuals: Stephanas, Fortunatus and Achaicus, Titus and of Paul himself and one time referring to the " coming of the lawless one ".

* Titus is made praetorian prefect of the Praetorian Guard and receives pro-consular command and also tribunician power, all of which indicates that Vespasian will follow the hereditary tradition of succession.

There are several Carmelite figures who have received significant attention in the 20th century, including Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, one of only three female Doctors of the Church, so named because of her famous teaching on the " way of confidence and love " set forth in her best-selling memoir, " Story of a Soul "; Titus Brandsma, a Dutch scholar and writer who was killed in Dachau Concentration Camp because of his stance against Nazism ; and Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross ( née Edith Stein ), a Jewish convert to Catholicism who was also imprisoned and died at Auschwitz.

More recently, in 2009 Eric Scheid, also known as " Titus ," released a single called " What Do You Believe " featuring Bizzy Bone from the nationally known hip hop group Bone Thugs-n-Harmony.

St Clement is also the hero of an early Christian romance or novel that has survived in at least two different versions, known as the Clementine literature, where he is identified with Emperor Domitian's cousin Titus Favius Clemens.

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.

During this period Titus also practiced law and attained the rank of quaestor.

Adjacent to the amphitheatre, within the precinct of Nero's Golden House, Titus had also ordered the construction of a new public bath-house, which was to bear his name.

The first definite reference to the ballad, Titus Andronicus ' Complaint, is an entry in the Stationers ' Register by the printer John Danter on 6 February 1594, where the entry " A booke intitled a Noble Roman Historye of Tytus Andronicus " is immediately followed by " Entred also vnto finde that none in all that Authors Works ever receiv'd greater Alterations or Additions, the language not only Refin'd, but many Scenes entirely New: Besides most of the principal Characters heighten'd and the Plot much incresas'd.

In 2005, German playwright Botho Strauß adapted the play into Schändung: nach dem Titus Andronicus von Shakespeare ( Rape: After Titus Andronicus by Shakespeare ), also commonly known by its French name, Viol, d ' après Titus Andronicus de William Shakespeare.

The adaptation also includes some lines from Q1 which were removed in subsequent editions ; at 1. 1. 35 Titus ' " bearing his valiant sons / in coffins from the field " continues with " and at this day ,/ To the Monument of that Andronicy / Done sacrifice of expiation ,/ And slaine the Noblest prisoner of the Gothes.

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

* Berenice, 81 AD who first married her uncle Herod, king of Chalcis, and afterwards lived with her brother Agrippa, reputedly in an incestuous relationship, and subsequently married Polamo, king of Cilicia ; she is alluded to by Juvenal ; Bernice also had a common-law relationship with the Roman emperor Titus.

The love story between Berenice and Titus is also the premise of La clemenza di Tito ( 1734 ), an Italian opera by Antonio Caldara ( mus.

This second account is also confirmed by the fact that Diocletian kept Carinus ' Praetorian Guard commander, Titus Claudius Aurelius Aristobulus, in service.

He studied rhetoric under Titus Castricius and Sulpicius Apollinaris ; philosophy under Calvisius Taurus and Peregrinus Proteus ; and enjoyed also the friendship and instruction of Favorinus, Herodes Atticus, and Fronto.