Tiberius eventually left Rome altogether for ... We’ll give him this - Maximinus Thrax has probably the coolest name of any ...

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 ...

He served under the Roman emperor Tiberius during the probable lifetime of Jesus. The ring, made of copper alloy and depicting a krater, a large vessel used for holding wine, bears an inscription ...

But the figure who most thoroughly shaped Capri’s fate was Augustus’ successor, the emperor Tiberius. In A.D. 27, at the age of 69, Tiberius moved to Capri to govern the enormous Roman empire ...

In all, roman emperors constructed dozens of villas over ... Several generations earlier, Tiberius had retired to villas constructed by his predecessor Augustus. Installing a regent in Rome ...

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 ...

Pontius Pilate is an iconic part of Jesus' story. He served under Emperor Tiberius as the fifth govern of the then-Roman province of Judaea between AD 26 to 36. But he's far better known as the ...

“In the Emperor’s Orbit” – brief biographies of three members of Tiberius’s inner circle ... Tiberius and his Age will prove a good read for anyone interested in the early Roman Empire.

Caligula was adored by the people of Rome, too, in part because of their love for Germanicus but also out of sympathy for the ...

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 ...

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 ...