Tiberius Julius Caesar

Roma

Sobriquet

General

History

Tiberius Caesar Augustus (16 November 42 BC – 16 March AD 37) was the
second Roman emperor, reigning from AD 14 to 37. He succeeded his stepfather,
Augustus.

Tiberius was one of Rome's greatest generals: his conquests of Pannonia, Dalmatia,
Raetia, and (temporarily) parts of Germania laid the foundations for the northern
frontier. Even so, he came to be remembered as a dark, reclusive and somber ruler
who never really desired to be emperor; Pliny the Elder called him
"the gloomiest of men".

After the death of his son Drusus Julius Caesar in AD 23, Tiberius became more
reclusive and aloof. In 26 AD he removed himself from Rome and left administration
largely in the hands of his unscrupulous praetorian prefects Sejanus and
Naevius Sutorius Macro. When Tiberius died, he was succeeded by his grand-nephew
and adopted grandson, Caligula.

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