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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;David Atherton, post: 2674460, member: 82616&quot;]Oh, perish the thought! LOL. Now that I&#039;m collecting interesting duplicates, the danger of me having nothing to acquire has greatly diminished! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie33" alt=":cigar:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Domitian&#039;s reign as recorded by the senatorial writers Tacitus and Pliny the Younger, and the equestrian Suetonius is deeply biased against him. The Senate and the upper classes despised Domitian for his autocratic ways, so the histories written by them reflect that. I&#039;m not a Domitian apologist (I fear many grains of truth in the written accounts that have survived), but I do think the &#039;terror&#039;, so called, was an isolated event that affected a handful of elites, unfortunately they wrote the history of his reign. </p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s interesting to note Domitian was taken out by a palace conspiracy, not by the military or the plebs who adored him.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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