Not long ago, in the year 14 CE, Tiberius Caesar Augustus became the second emperor of Rome. (I mention this because, as we all know, history repeats itself, and so we need to pay attention.) Tiberius ...

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 ...

In AD 9, three Roman legions suffered a massacre in a region of Germania undergoing pacification. In the years that followed several attempts were made to capture or kill the German mastermind, ...

In Tom Holland's impressive new survey of Rome's first imperial rulers - the so-called Julio-Claudians: Julius Caesar, Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius and Nero - these six remarkable men are, ...

The figure of Livia Drusilla looms large in the history of Rome. For 50 years the wife of Julius Caesar’s adopted son, the emperor Augustus Caesar, she gave birth to another emperor, Tiberius, and ...