and Tiberius became Rome’s second emperor in 14 CE. Ancient authors did not remember Tiberius kindly, inevitably comparing him to Augustus and finding him lacking. But they also consistently ...

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 and jealousy led Rome into a ...

For most of this period, emperors were not chosen on the basis ... For many, the sacrifices required to get the top job were enormous: Tiberius had to divorce the woman he loved for one he did ...

Female members of the imperial family, the wives, daughters - and particularly - mothers of Roman emperors are some of the most colourful characters of Rome in the early imperial age; as described ...

Non-Western intellectuals and strategists have often wrongly equated domestic dysfunction and division in US democracy with ...

Among the least ambitious of Roman emperors, Tiberius seemed content to remain a general, leading his legions. What, as the Russian revolutionary Nikolai Chernyshevsky asked, is to be done?