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 ...
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The guard answered to him, not Caesar - The story of Rome’s shadow emperor
In the early reign of Tiberius, the death of Germanicus left Drusus the Younger as Rome’s fragile heir, but real power increasingly flowed through Lucius Aelius Seianus, the ambitious prefect of the ...
13:34, Mon, Jun 2, 2025 Updated: 19:05, Mon, Jun 2, 2025 Ancient Rome produced the longest-lasting empire in human history. It wasn’t the biggest – that was the British Empire. It wasn’t even the ...
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Why he never wanted the throne but took it anyway
Tiberius became emperor not because he wanted power but because Augustus engineered the succession and every alternative heir died. Forced to divorce the woman he loved and pushed into political duty, ...
Roman emperor Tiberius was one of the world's greatest generals, having conquered Pannonia, Dalmatia, Raetia, and temporarily Germania under his 23-year reign. But when he wasn't busy building his ...
ROME (Reuters) - After decades of neglect, one of ancient Rome's most important monuments, the mausoleum of the first emperor Augustus, has been restored and will reopen early next year, city ...
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