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15-405: Titus Flavius Clemens may refer to: Titus Flavius Clemens (consul) , Roman politician and cousin of the emperor Domitian, consul AD 95 Clement of Alexandria ( c.  150  – c.  215 ), Christian theologian and philosopher [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about people with

30-517: Is a biographical dictionary of classical antiquity , edited by William Smith and originally published in London by Taylor , Walton (and Maberly) and John Murray from 1844 to 1849 in three volumes of more than 3,700 pages. It is a classic work of 19th-century lexicography . The work is a companion to Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities and Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography . The work lists thirty-five authors in addition to

45-559: Is missing, especially more recent discoveries (such as Aristotle 's Constitution of the Athenians or the decipherment of Linear B ) and epigraphic material. More seriously, the context in which ancient evidence is viewed, analysed, reconciled, and understood has changed considerably in the intervening centuries. Modern theories and reconstructions of events are also not present, if only because they were published decades and centuries after Smith's Dictionary . Citations Sources Also

60-511: The Oxford Classical Dictionary – itself hailed in its first edition in 1949 as "the new Smith" – called it: Still surprisingly useful over factual matters that depend more or less exclusively on ancient literary sources, where its entries tend to be both thorough and accurate. Smith's dictionary, however, does have substantial flaws. Troy and Knossos , for example, "the editors still regarded... as minstrels' fantasies". Much

75-635: The Talmud described as a Roman senator who converted to Judaism and managed to save the Jews from a decree of persecution, before himself being executed. [REDACTED]  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain :  Smith, William , ed. (1870). "Clemens, T. Flavius". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology . Vol. 1. p. 788. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology The Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

90-549: The articles on the Ptolemies in Dr. Smith's "Dictionary of Classical Biography." They were all written by E. H. Bunbury with the help of my "History of Egypt," and with-out any acknowledgment, though he even borrowed the volume from my brother Dan for the purpose. The work is now in the public domain , and is available in several places on the Internet. A 2013 review of the fourth edition of

105-427: The daughter of his brother Titus, was also his niece). Clemens also married one of his second cousins, Flavia Domitilla , daughter of Vespasian's daughter, Domitilla , who was thus also a niece of Domitian. They had two sons, whom Domitian intended to succeed him in the empire, renaming one of them Vespasian and the other Domitian . In AD 95, Clemens served as consul alongside the emperor from January to April. He

120-495: The depth and detail of the individual articles, but in the copious and specific citations to individual Greek and Roman writers, as well as modern scholarship from the Renaissance to the mid-nineteenth century. The articles frequently note variant traditions, disagreements among the authorities, and the interpretations of modern scholars. However, due to the variable numbering systems used in different editions of classical works, and

135-537: The difficulty of recognizing typographical errors in citations, the original sources should still be checked. Many of the Dictionary's articles have been referred to in more recent works; Robert Graves has been accused of cribbing his impressive-looking source references from it when writing The Greek Myths . Samuel Sharpe thought Edward Bunbury had plagiarised his work, as he wrote of in his diary entry on 3 September 1850: I certainly felt mortified on reading

150-610: The editor, who was also the author of the unsigned articles. The other authors were classical scholars, primarily from Oxford , Cambridge , Rugby School , and the University of Bonn , but some were from other institutions. Many of the mythological entries were the work of the German expatriate Leonhard Schmitz , who helped to popularise German classical scholarship in Britain. With respect to biographies, Smith intended to be comprehensive. In

165-635: The preface, he writes: The biographical articles in this work include the names of all persons of any importance which occur in the Greek and Roman writers, from the earliest times down to the extinction of the Western Empire in the year 476 of our era, and to the extinction of the Eastern Empire by the capture of Constantinople by the Turks in the year 1453. Much of the value of the Dictionary consists not only in

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180-491: The same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Titus_Flavius_Clemens&oldid=1085209728 " Category : Human name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Titus Flavius Clemens (consul) Clemens

195-423: Was captured and slain by the forces of Vitellius , who burnt the capitol, but the rest of the family escaped. Clemens' brother was consul with Domitian, shortly after the latter's accession, but the emperor put his cousin to death on the pretext that the herald proclaiming him consul had called him Imperator . Suetonius claims that Domitian was motivated by his love for his cousin's wife, Julia Flavia (who, as

210-561: Was executed shortly after leaving the consulship at the end of April. According to Cassius Dio , Clemens was put to death on a charge of atheism, for which, he adds, many others who went over to the Jewish opinions were executed. This may imply that Clemens had converted to Christianity . For the same reason, his wife was banished to Pandataria . The Christian author Eusebius mentions Clemens without saying anything about his belief. Some scholars identify Clemens with "Ketia bar Shalom", whom

225-513: Was the son of Titus Flavius Sabinus , consul suffectus in AD 69, and a brother of Titus Flavius Sabinus , consul in AD 82. The emperor Vespasian was his paternal great-uncle, while the emperors Titus and Domitian were his father's cousins. As a child, Clemens was besieged along with his family in the capitol, while his great-uncle Vespasian's soldiers were approaching Rome. His grandfather, Vespasian's brother Titus Flavius Sabinus, consul in AD 47,

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