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Titus Flavius Vespasianus, unlike his father, his full namesake, who went down in history under the personal name Titus, was a Roman emperor from the Flavian dynasty who ruled from 79 to 81. He became the first emperor to inherit power from his biological father. During Vespasian's lifetime, Titus distinguished himself as the conqueror of Jerusalem during the Jewish War. Titus's short-lived independent reign, which lasted only two years, was marked by natural disasters and the emperor's generous social policy. After his death, Titus was deified (divine Titus, Latin Divus Titus), and in historiography he was idealized as a humane ruler... Medievalist historian Natalia Ivanovna Basovskaya tells us.