Tiberius / Robin Seager.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Seager, Robin, Author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (336 p.)

Edition:

Reprint 2020

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1972.

Contents:

Tiberius

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Preface

Chronological table

Abbreviations

I. Tiberius' childhood: the political background

1. The end of the republic

2. Tiberius' birth and infancy: the triumvirate

3. The Augustan Principate

II. Tiberius and Augustus

1. Tiberius' first steps in public life

2. The succession: Marcellus and the sons of Agrippa

3. The northern frontier: Rhaetia and Vindelicia

4. The succession: Tiberius' marriage to Julia

5. The northern frontier: Illyricum and Germany

6. Tiberius' retirement to Rhodes

7. Tiberius' adoption

8. The northern frontier: Germany and Pannonia

9. Tiberius the successor of Augustus

III. The accession of Tiberius

1. The death of Augustus and the removal of Agrippa postumus

2. The interim and the meeting of the senate on 17 September

IV. Germanicus and drusus

1. The mutinies on the Danube and the Rhine

2. The German campaigns of 15

3. The German campaign of 1 6

4. The trial of Libo and the rising of Clemens

5. Drusus in Illyricum

6. Germanicus in the east

7. The trial of Piso

8. The succession: Drusus and the sons of Germanicus

V. Tiberius as princeps, a.d. 14-26

1. Senate and magistrates

2. The equestrian order and the people

3. Honours and titles

4. Religion

5. The law of maiestas

6. The provinces

7. Tiberius and the precepts of Augustus

VI. Seianus

1. The rise of Seianus

2. Seianus' ambitions

3. Seianus and the death of Drusus

4. From drusus' death to tiberius' withdrawal to capreae

5. The supremacy of Seianus

6. The fall of Seianus

VII. The last years

1. Tiberius and Rome after Seianus' fall

2. The eastern frontier

3. The succession: Gaius and Tiberius Gemellus

4. Tiberius' death

Conclusion

Stemma

The sources

Tacitus

Suetonius

Notes:

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ISBN:

9780520347304

0520347307

OCLC:

1198930839