In this Hamptons of antiquity, Roman girls cavorted on the pebbly beach in prototype bikinis. But the figure who most thoroughly shaped Capri’s fate was Augustus’ successor, the emperor Tiberius. In A ...
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 ...
For centuries, dreamers as disparate In time and temperament as Rome’s Emperor Augustus and Sweden’s Author-Doctor Axel Munthe found Italy’s idyllic Isle of Capri a perfect spot in which to get away ...
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 largest in terms of land mass - that was the vast sea of ...
In 1957, the first fragments of statues were discovered at Sperlonga, Emperor Tiberius's pleasure palace from the first century A.D. But when Italian officials tried to take the relics to Rome, the ...
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