Vespasian (9 – 79 AD / ruled 69 – 79 AD ... a theater and early work on what would become the Colosseum. He then turned his attention to the army. In a wholesale reorganization, he restored ...

The emperor who commissioned the Colosseum, Vespasian, took power in difficult times: Rome had just come off civil war and ...

Vespasian’s eldest son ... He also completed work on the Colosseum and opened it with 100 days of games, wisely using this to calm the Roman mob during a time of economic hardship.