It was a tremendous embarrassment for the failing Roman Empire, and it worsened an already terrible crisis. Called “the ...

Augustus had outlived his preferred heirs - his two grandsons. So when he died, it was his son-in-law, Tiberius, who became emperor. Tiberius knew he was not first choice. So did everybody else.

The 1st century CE Roman author Tacitus is one of the most important primary sources that we have for Rome under the ...

Ancient manuscripts detailing the events during the Roman Empire are believed to contain ... suffered the extreme penalty during the reign of Tiberius at the hands of one of our procurators ...

Revealing, insightful, and often quite witty, Tiberius and his Age will prove a good read for anyone interested in the early Roman Empire.

The Roman Empire was created and controlled by its ... In 14 AD, just after Tiberius had become emperor, a mutiny broke out among legions in central Europe. Soldiers complained that Rome was ...

His study is pivotal for understanding the propagation of Christianity within the Roman Empire following ... the extreme penalty during the reign of Tiberius at the hands of one of our procurators ...

Way back in A.D. 6, during the expansion of the Roman Empire along the Danube and into present-day Germany, the future emperor Tiberius reached this spot and established a winter encampment.

In the worst, it faces the fall of the Roman Empire. As it was for Rome ... and Augustus was succeeded without question by his stepson, Tiberius. The same arguments currently being made by ...

Hekster, G. de Kleijn and D. Slootjes (eds.), Crises and the Roman Empire (Brill, 2007), especially ‘Tiberius Gracchus, Land and Manpower’ by John W. Rich Josiah Osgood, Rome and the Making of ...

Following the murder of the bedridden Tiberius, Caligula ascends to the ... However, how much longer must the Roman Empire tolerate the uncontrollable mania of the insane tyrant?