A s was the Roman custom, Augustus adopted his stepson Tiberius as his heir, and Tiberius became Rome’s second emperor in 14 CE. Ancient authors did not remember Tiberius kindly, inevitably ...

Tiberius was the Roman emperor who from his resort near the city of Pompeii wrote to the Roman Senate the despairing words: 'May all the gods and goddesses damn me a thousand times worse than I am ...

According to the Roman historian Tacitus ... At Pollentia (modern day Majorca), Emperor Tiberius needed soldiers to quell riots borne of frustration at the absence of gladiators from a local ...

taking plots of land near remote Roman forts. Rome was not always able to honor the important promise of land. In 14 AD, just after Tiberius had become emperor, a mutiny broke out among legions in ...

It was built by the Roman emperor Tiberius, who commissioned 12 villas on Capri in the hopes of creating a palace of peace and relaxation away from the chaos of Rome. Villa Jovis is the most ...

Among the least ambitious of Roman emperors, Tiberius seemed content to remain a general, leading his legions. What, as the Russian revolutionary Nikolai Chernyshevsky asked, is to be done?

Pagan Rome, 37 A.D. As the frail, syphilis-ridden, and half-mad Emperor Tiberius nears the end of ... much to the disgust of the Roman Senate. Now a dangerous megalomaniac, Caligula declares ...

Historians record that the unified Roman Empire was ruled by 69 emperors between the first emperor Augustus (who reigned from 27 B.C. to A.D. 14) and Theodosius (ruled from A.D. 379 to 395), but ...