Agrippa II goes to Rome after the destruction of Jerusalem; his sister Berenice also goes to Rome, where she is reportedly courted by Titus.

Josephus, too, takes up residence in the city.

Upon Titus’ arrival in Rome in 71, he is awarded a triumph.

Accompanied by Vespasian and Domitian, he rides into the city, enthusiastically saluted by the Roman populace and preceded by a lavish parade containing treasures and captives from the war.

Josephus describes a procession with large amounts of gold and silver carried along the route, followed by elaborate reenactments of the war, Jewish prisoners, and finally the treasures taken from the Temple of Jerusalem, including the Menorah (the seven-branched golden candelabrum used during the eight-day festival of Hanukkah, and which signifies, among other things, the seven days of creation) and the Pentateuch.

Simon Bar Giora is executed in the Forum, after which the procession closes with religious sacrifices at the Temple of Jupiter.

(The triumphal Arch of Titus, which stands at one entrance to the Forum, memorializes the victory of Titus.)

Where Domitian’s political and military career had ended in disappointment, his private affairs are more successful at this time.

Vespasian has attempted to arrange a dynastic marriage between his youngest son and the daughter of Titus, Julia Flavia, but Domitian is adamant in his love for Domitia Longina, going so far as to persuade her husband, Lucius Aelius Lamia, to divorce her so that Domitian himself can marry her, which he does in 71.

Despite its initial recklessness, the alliance is very prestigious for both families.

Domitia Longina is the younger daughter of Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo, the respected general and honored politician, who, following the failed Pisonian conspiracy against Nero in 65, had been forced to commit suicide.

The new marriage not only reestablishes ties to senatorial opposition, but also serves the broader Flavian propaganda of the time, which seeks to diminish Vespasian's political success under Nero.

Instead connections to Claudius and Britannicus are emphasized, and Nero's victims, or those otherwise disadvantaged by him, rehabilitated.