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Denarius of Julia Flavia Vespasian Children    Titus    Domitian    Domitilla Titus Children    Julia Flavia Domitian Children    1 son, 1 daughter, both died young

Julia Flavia (17 September 64 - 91) was the only child to the Emperor Titus from his second marriage to the well-connected Marcia Furnilla. Titus divorced Furnilla after Julia's birth and conquered Jerusalem on Julia's sixth birthday. Julia was born in Rome. She was also known as Flavia Julia, Julia, Flavia, Flavia Julia Titii, Titii Julia and Julia Titii.

When growing up, Titus offered her in marriage to his brother Domitian, but he refused because of his infatuation with Domitia Longina. Later she married her second cousin Titus Flavius Sabinus (consul 82), brother to consul Titus Flavius Clemens, who married her first cousin Flavia Domitilla. By then Domitian had seduced her.

When her father and husband died, in the words of Dio 67.3, Domitian:

lived with [her] as husband with wife, making little effort at concealment. Then upon the demands of the people he became reconciled with Domitia, but continued his relations with Julia none the less.

Falling pregnant, Julia died of what was rumoured (though unlikely) to be a forced abortion. Julia was deified and her ashes were later mixed with Domitian's by an old nurse secretly in the Temple of the Flavians. (Suetonius,Domitian 17.3)

One anecdote by the historian Suetonius relates an instance where the hero Jason returned from an expedition to Carthage, expecting immediate marriage to Julia. When she rejected him on the spot, he responded by throwing a cask of wine at her bedroom door. This created a minor scandal, fortunately relieved by the quick thinking of the Senate.

• Suetonius, The Twelve Caesars -
  • Titus
• Domitian 17, 22
• Dio Cass. Ixvii. 3
• Plin. Ep. iv. 11. § 6
• Juv. Sat. ii. 32 ("Such a man was that adulterer [ie Domitian] who, after lately defiling himself by a union of the tragic style, revived the stern laws that were to be a terror to all men-ay, even to Mars and Venus - just as Julia was relieving her fertile womb and giving birth to abortions that displayed the likeness of her uncle.")
• Philost. Vit. Apoll. Tyan. vii. 3.

• Media on Julia Titi in the Wikicommons.