Guy Edward Farquhar Chilver
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LOCATION: Canterbury, United Kingdom
Professor of Classical Studies, University of Kent at Canterbury, England, 1964–76. Author of "Vespasian" in Oxford Classical Dictionary.
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Vespasian was a Roman emperor (ad 69–79) who, though of humble birth, became the founder of the Flavian dynasty after the civil wars that followed Nero’s death in 68. His fiscal reforms and consolidation of the empire generated political stability and a vast Roman building program. Vespasian was…
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