Never the preferred heir, Tiberius (42 BC – 37 AD / reigned 14 – 37 AD) soon showed why Augustus had wanted someone else. His political inability, poor judgment ...
Tiberius is known today, if at all, as the man who greased the Roman Empire’s slide into the degenerate dictatorships of Caligula, Claudius and Nero. So let’s take a look at the reign of Tiberius ...
In AD 9, three Roman legions suffered a massacre in a region of Germania undergoing pacification. In the years that followed several attempts were made to capture or kill the German mastermind, ...
A review of How to Be A Bad Emperor by Suetonius, selected and translated by Josiah Osgood. Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus wrote around 120 A.D., more than one hundred years after the establishment of ...
The author of an outstanding biography of Nero, Prof. Champlin proposed to follow it with one on Tiberius. Although he never completed the project, he did write several papers about that ill-reputed ...
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