Tiberius (lived 42 BC–AD 37)
Tiberius was the favorite general of Augustus, who in 12 BC forced him to divorce Vipsania and marry his own daughter Julia, and in AD 4 adopted him. After Augustus’s death in AD 14 he accepted power after a hesitation that was, according to Tacitus, theatrical.
In AD 26 he withdrew to Capri and ruled by letters to the Senate until the end of his life. Toward the end of his life he was dominated by the praetorian prefect Sejanus, until Sejanus’s fall in AD 31.
He died at Misenum on March 16, AD 37. The circumstances of his death are uncertain: Suetonius collects several versions, and Tacitus writes that orders were given to smother him. Scholars treat these stories as gossip. After him power passed to Caligula.
Related
People
- Livia (lived 59/58 BC–AD 29)
- Augustus (lived 63 BC–AD 14)
- Germanicus (lived 15 BC–AD 19)
- Drusus the Younger (d. AD 23)
Articles
- Applaud — Augustus: He Found Rome Brick and Left It Marble
- Wolf by the Ears — Tiberius: Capri and Paranoia
- The Island — Tiberius: Capri and Paranoia
- Tiberius to the Tiber — Tiberius: Capri and Paranoia
- Little Boot from the Camp — Caligula: The Horse in the Senate
- The Family Fool — Claudius: Found Behind a Curtain, Poisoned With Mushrooms?
