Tiberius

by Seager, Robin

• ISBN13: 9781405115285
• ISBN10: 1405115289
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-01-28
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

Robin Seager traces the life of Tiberius from his birth in Rome in 42 bc during the death throes of the Republic, through his military career and reign as Emperor, to his death in ad 37. Tiberiusrs" complex character is the key to understanding his reign. Challenging the common ancient view of Tiberius as a consummate hypocrite, Seager portrays him instead as a man whose virtues and beliefs were corrupted by power, who lost his grasp of reality as his fears of conspiracy and assassination spiralled out of control, and who finally resorted to ruling by terror. The second edition of this highly readable biography contains a substantial afterword, reconsidering various questions and discussing important new evidence that has come to light since the book was first published.

Author Biography

Robin Seager is Reader in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Liverpool. He is the author of Pompey: A Political Biography (1979), Ammianus Marcellinus: Seven Studies in his Language and Thought (1986) and Pompey the Great (Blackwell, 2002).

Table of Contents

Illustrations	viii
Preface to the Second Edition	x
Preface to the First Edition	xii
Chronological Table	xiii
Abbreviations	xvii
Stemma	xix
Maps	xx
Tiberius' Childhood: The Political Background	1	(10)
The End of the Republic	1	(4)
Tiberius' Birth and Infancy: The Triumvirate	5	(3)
The Augustan Principate	8	(3)
Tiberius and Augustus	11	(29)
Tiberius' First Steps in Public Life	11	(3)
The Succession: Marcellus and the Sons of Agrippa	14	(4)
The Northern Frontier: Rhaetia and Vindelicia	18	(1)
The Succession: Tiberius' Marriage to Julia	19	(2)
The Northern Frontier: Illyricum and Germany	21	(2)
Tiberius' Retirement to Rhodes	23	(6)
Tiberius' Adoption	29	(3)
The Northern Frontier: Germany and Pannonia	32	(5)
Tiberius the Successor of Augustus	37	(3)
The Accession of Tiberius	40	(8)
The Death of Augustus and the Removal of Agrippa Postumus	40	(2)
The Interim and the Meeting of the Senate on 17 September	42	(6)
Germanicus and Drusus	48	(56)
The Mutinies on the Danube and the Rhine	48	(13)
The German Campaigns of 15	61	(7)
The German Campaign of 16	68	(6)
The Trial of Libo and the Rising of Clemens	74	(3)
Drusus in Illyricum	77	(4)
Germanicus in the East	81	(13)
The Trial of Piso	94	(6)
The Succession: Drusus and the Sons of Germanicus	100	(4)
Tiberius as Princeps, Ad 14--26	104	(47)
Senate and Magistrates	104	(11)
The Equestrian Order and the People	115	(4)
Honours and Titles	119	(1)
Religion	120	(5)
The Law of Maiestas	125	(13)
The Provinces	138	(9)
Tiberius and the Precepts of Augustus	147	(4)
Seianus	151	(38)
The Rise of Seianus	151	(1)
Seianus' Ambitions	152	(2)
Seianus and the Death of Drusus	154	(4)
From Drusus' Death to Tiberius' Withdrawal to Capreae	158	(13)
The Supremacy of Seianus	171	(9)
The Fall of Seianus	180	(9)
The Last Years	189	(20)
Tiberius and Rome After Seianus' Fall	189	(14)
The Eastern Frontier	203	(2)
The Succession: Gaius and Tiberius Gemellus	205	(1)
Tiberius' Death	206	(3)
Conclusion	209	(4)
Afterword	213	(19)
The Sources	232	(11)
Tacitus	233	(4)
Suetonius	237	(2)
Dio	239	(1)
Velleius Paterculus	240	(3)
Notes	243	(45)
Bibliography	288	(6)
Additional Bibliography	294	(5)
Index	299