Vespasian
and Jewish rebellion, 163
seizes power, 166
stamps his mark on Rome, 167
reign of, 167, 168, 169, 170
relationship with Caenis, 168, 169, 170
death, 174
brief references, 1, 4, 144, 159, 161, 162, 171, 173, 183, 185, 190, 225, 251
Vesta, 194, 209
Vestal Virgins, 13–14, 38, 43, 68, 90, 111, 122, 125, 177, 259, 290
Vesuvius, Mount, 64, 175
Veturia, 20, 21, 33, 46, 77
Via Flaminia, 31
Via Latina, 184
Vibia Perpetua, 261
Vibia Sabina see Sabina
Vibius Sabinus, L., 200
Vicetia, 200
Victory, 283, 298, 301
Vienna: Kunsthistorisches Museum, 93
Villa Boscotrecase, 64–6
Vipsania, 73
Vipsania Polla, 76, 77
Virgil, 53, 61, 93
Aeneid, 61, 140
Virgin Mary, 259, 298, 304
Vistilia, 68
Vitellia, 168
Vitellius (agent of Messalina), 131, 136
Vitellius (governor of Germania), 165, 166, 168
Vitruvius: On Architecture, 60, 230
Vologaeses IV, King of Parthia, 211. 212
Voltaire, 158
Volumnia, 20, 21, 33, 46, 77
Washington, Martha, 8
Waugh, Evelyn: Helena, 248, 274
wedding ceremony, 14–16
West, Benjamin: Agrippina Landing at Brundisium with the Ashes of Germanicus, 116
West Wing, The, 1
wet-nurses, 17, 18
White House, 8, 196
Wilde, Oscar, 275
Wilson, Edith, 8, 196
Wilson, Woodrow, 8, 196
Wilton House Antonia, 98
wool-working, 49, 286
Xenophon, 142
Year of Four Emperors, 165–6
York, 274 see also Eboracum
Yourcenar, Marguerite: Memoirs of Hadrian, 187
Zeno, 308
Zenobia, 249–50
Zosimus, 284, 290
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