Tiberius
Tiberius (Tiberius Iulius Caesar Augustus),emperor (b. 16 Nov. 42 BC; d. 16 Mar. AD 37). He was the son of Tiberius Claudius Nero and Livia. His mother Livia was divorced and married Octavian, the future Augustus, in 38 shortly before the birth of Tiberius' brother Nero Claudius Drusus. After public service in Spain with Augustus (Suetonius Tiberius 8), Tiberius was quaestor in 23 BC, five years earlier than normal. From 20 BC, when he crowned the Roman nominee Tigranes in Armenia, until AD 12, when he returned to Rome after retrieving the situation on the Rhine after the Varian disaster (AD 9; Publius Quinctilius Varus lost three legions), Tiberius' military career was uniformly successful. In 15 and 14 BC he completed with Drusus the conquest of the Alps; from Agrippa's death in 12 until 9 BC he was reducing Pannonia; from Drusus' death to 7 BC and again from AD 4 to 6 he campaigned in...
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