A s was the Roman custom, Augustus adopted his stepson Tiberius as his heir, and Tiberius became Rome’s second emperor in 14 CE. Ancient authors did not remember Tiberius kindly, inevitably ...

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 ...

Tiberius eventually left Rome altogether for ... We’ll give him this - Maximinus Thrax has probably the coolest name of any ...

In all, roman emperors constructed dozens of villas over ... Several generations earlier, Tiberius had retired to villas constructed by his predecessor Augustus. Installing a regent in Rome ...

Lifting the curtain on the life of the controversial emperor Tiberius.

Augustus had outlived his preferred heirs - his two grandsons. So when he died, it was his son-in-law, Tiberius, who became emperor. Tiberius knew he was not first choice. So did everybody else.

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.

Tiberius was the Roman emperor who from his resort near the city of Pompeii wrote to the Roman Senate the despairing words: 'May all the gods and goddesses damn me a thousand times worse than I am ...

taking plots of land near remote Roman forts. Rome was not always able to honor the important promise of land. In 14 AD, just after Tiberius had become emperor, a mutiny broke out among legions in ...

“In the Emperor’s Orbit” – brief biographies of three members of Tiberius’s inner circle ... Tiberius and his Age will prove a good read for anyone interested in the early Roman Empire.