Tiberius had waited a long time to be emperor and had made many sacrifices. In 11 BC, Augustus had forced him to divorce his much-loved wife and marry Julia, the emperor’s daughter. The two did ...

and Tiberius became Rome’s second emperor in 14 CE. Ancient authors did not remember Tiberius kindly, inevitably comparing ...

Given the chance to interrogate one of history’s most famous figures, what would you ask? Speaking on the HistoryExtra ...

But the figure who most thoroughly shaped Capri’s fate was Augustus’ successor, the emperor Tiberius. In A.D. 27, at the age of 69, Tiberius moved to Capri to govern the enormous Roman empire ...

Champlin proposed to follow it with one on Tiberius. Although he never completed the project, he did write several papers about that ill-reputed emperor. Nine of these are included in this volume, ...

Emperors could only survive if their people ... For many, the sacrifices required to get the top job were enormous: Tiberius had to divorce the woman he loved for one he did not; Caligula saw ...

Show more The photograph is in a book with a typed description. The description: "(Acts, xxv: 21.)--Tiberius was Emperor of Rome from A.D. 14 to A.D. 37. His house on the Palatine hill helped to form ...

The Roman historian Suetonius’ biography of the controversial Emperor Tiberius, is one of his most shocking and salacious, condemning Tiberius to infamy. But was Tiberius really the perverted ...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the impact on Roman politics of the brothers Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus and how the reaction to them helped destabilise the Republic.

as well as the reigns of Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, and Nero. The first Empress of Rome, the ruthless Livia Drusilla, carves a corpse-strewn path to put her own son on the emperor's throne.