Tiberius had waited a long time to be emperor and had made many sacrifices. In 11 BC, Augustus had forced him to divorce his much-loved wife and marry Julia, the emperor’s daughter. The two did ...

and Tiberius became Rome’s second emperor in 14 CE. Ancient authors did not remember Tiberius kindly, inevitably comparing ...

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

Enough of the Princeps, what remains to be described, is the monster….

The author of an outstanding biography of Nero, Prof. Champlin proposed to follow it with one on Tiberius. Although he never completed the project, he did write several papers about that ill-reputed ...

Show more The photograph is in a book with a typed description. The description: "(Acts, xxv: 21.)--Tiberius was Emperor of Rome from A.D. 14 to A.D. 37. His house on the Palatine hill helped to form ...

Disfigured, awkward and clumsy, Claudius (10 BC – 54 AD / Reigned 41 – 54 AD) was the black sheep of his family and an unlikely emperor. Once in place, he was fairly successful, but his poor ...

Pagan Rome, 37 A.D. As the frail, syphilis-ridden, and half-mad Emperor Tiberius nears the end of his reign, Prince Gaius Augustus Germanicus, known as Caligula, arrives at the depraved ruler's ...

as well as the reigns of Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, and Nero. The first Empress of Rome, the ruthless Livia Drusilla, carves a corpse-strewn path to put her own son on the emperor's throne.