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Tiberius has always been one of the most enigmatic of the Roman emperors and Barbara Levick offers a comprehensive and engaging portrait of his life. This new edition contains a new preface and a revised bibliography.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #140005 in Books
• Published on: 1999-08-26
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 336 pages

From the Back Cover
Tiberius has always been one of the most enigmatic of the Roman emperors. At the same time, his career is uniquely important for the understanding of the Empires development on the foundations laid by Augustus.
Barbara Levick offers a comprehensive and engaging portrait of the life and times of Tiberius, including an exploration of his ancestry and his education, an analysis of his provincial and foreign policy and an examination of his notorious final years and his posthumous reputation.
This new edition of Tiberius the Politician contains a new preface and a revised bibliography.

Customer Reviews

A great study of a interesting character
The life and career of the successor and adopted son of Augustus the first emperor of Rome are a fascinating study. He served as a general and rose to the rank of heir apparent and then proceeded to retire from public life. On returning he attained the position of emperor and strove to work with the senate, only to retire once more leaving his aide and 'Partner in my labours' Sejanus in command. These events have complex motives many of which are unsure and even speculative and much needed this fresh approach. To complicate matters the history is based primarily upon the works of Tacitus a man who disliked primarily Tiberius because he associated him with the despotic Domitian under whom he lived some years later. Levick explores all of these aspects to Tiberius in great depth, as well as much much more. There is no need to agree with all of Levick's interpretations, but they provide a valuable insight and a good start for the study of one of Rome's great and shadowy emperors emperors

Perfect service
No problems at all with the service, the book itself is what my tutor at Oxford has said we'd be constantly using for this term's work on 'Tacitus and Tiberius', so it must have something about it!