Tiberius

Robin Seager9781405115285, 1-4051-1528-9, 1-4051-1529-7

Robin Seager has updated his classic biography of Tiberius, which focuses on the Emperor’s complex character as the key to understanding his reign. The most readable account available of the life of Tiberius, the second Roman emperor. Argues that Tiberius’ character provides the key to understanding his reign. Portrays Tiberius as a man whose virtues and beliefs were corrupted by power. Shows how Tiberius’ fears of conspiracy and assassination caused him to lose his grasp of reality. A new afterword discusses important new evidence that has come to light on the reign of Tiberius.

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Table of contents :
Contents……Page 7
Illustrations……Page 10
Preface to the Second Edition……Page 12
Preface to the First Edition……Page 14
Chronological Table……Page 15
Abbreviations……Page 19
Stemma……Page 21
Maps……Page 22
1 The End of the Republic……Page 29
2 Tiberius’ Birth and Infancy: The Triumvirate……Page 33
3 The Augustan Principate……Page 36
1 Tiberius’ First Steps in Public Life……Page 39
2 The Succession: Marcellus and the Sons of Agrippa……Page 42
3 The Northern Frontier: Rhaetia and Vindelicia……Page 46
4 The Succession: Tiberius’ Marriage to Julia……Page 47
5 The Northern Frontier: Illyricum and Germany……Page 49
6 Tiberius’ Retirement to Rhodes……Page 51
7 Tiberius’ Adoption……Page 57
8 The Northern Frontier: Germany and Pannonia……Page 60
9 Tiberius the Successor of Augustus……Page 65
1 The Death of Augustus and the Removal of Agrippa Postumus……Page 68
2 The Interim and the Meeting of the Senate on 17 September……Page 70
1 The Mutinies on the Danube and the Rhine……Page 76
2 The German Campaigns of 15……Page 89
3 The German Campaign of 16……Page 96
4 The Trial of Libo and the Rising of Clemens……Page 102
5 Drusus in Illyricum……Page 105
6 Germanicus in the East……Page 109
7 The Trial of Piso……Page 122
8 The Succession: Drusus and the Sons of Germanicus……Page 128
1 Senate and Magistrates……Page 132
2 The Equestrian Order and the People……Page 143
3 Honours and Titles……Page 147
4 Religion……Page 148
5 The Law of Maiestas……Page 153
6 The Provinces……Page 166
7 Tiberius and the Precepts of Augustus……Page 175
1 The Rise of Seianus……Page 179
2 Seianus’ Ambitions……Page 180
3 Seianus and the Death of Drusus……Page 182
4 From Drusus’ Death to Tiberius’ Withdrawal to Capreae……Page 186
5 The Supremacy of Seianus……Page 199
6 The Fall of Seianus……Page 208
1 Tiberius and Rome after Seianus’ Fall……Page 217
2 The Eastern Frontier……Page 231
3 The Succession: Gaius and Tiberius Gemellus……Page 233
4 Tiberius’ Death……Page 234
Conclusion……Page 237
Afterword……Page 241
The Sources……Page 260
Tacitus……Page 261
Suetonius……Page 265
Dio……Page 267
Velleius Paterculus……Page 268
Notes……Page 271
Bibliography……Page 316
Additional Bibliography……Page 322
Index……Page 327