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Aqueducts Roads Colosseum Army Home Slave Source: Abc Clio Tiberius was the second Roman emperor, succeeding Augustus on his death in A.D. 14. He was remembered as a dour and often cruel man so watch out, and his reign was marked by violent abuses of power committed in his name by Sejanus, his Praetorian Guard prefect. Under Tiberius' rule, however, the pax Romania survived the death of Augustus, and the Roman world prospered—even if those closest to the center of imperial power, namely Rome’s senators and powerful knights, found Tiberius' reign a period of anxiety and danger. ** ** Tiberius Claudius Nero was born on November 16, 42 B.C. He became the stepson of Octavian (later Augustus) in 39 B.C. when the future emperor married Tiberius' mother, Livia. As Augustus' heir, Tiberius was destined to rule the Roman world, but that destiny would cost him personally and seemed to have burdened him with great resentment and sadness, which he expressed in prolonged retreats from public life in Rome. ** ** In A.D. 4, Augustus officially adopted Tiberius, clearly stating that he did so only "for the good of the res publica." When Augustus died in A.D. 14, Tiberius was the clear heir (successor) to succeed him as the leader of the Roman world. Tiberius' reign began awkwardly as he arrived at the Roman senate to announce his succession as Augustus' heir. There was no protocol for such transitions because Augustus had been, as Tiberius was now, technically nothing more than the most highly honored of Rome's senators, the princeps senatus how sad//.// Tangible transitional problems arose when two frontier armies took the death of Augustus as an occasion to voice their discontent and then to lapse into outright rebellion. It was only with great difficulty that Tiberius' sons Germanicus and Drusus Julius Caesar were able to quell the uprisings. Despite those difficulties, Tiberius' reign began benignly. That mood changed when Tiberius took into his confidence Sejanus, his ambitious and deceitful Praetorian Guard prefect. Sejanus harbored imperial ambitions for his own family and, through a series of maneuvers and manipulations, set about destroying those he saw as contenders to succeed Tiberius and their allies. Among those was Tiberius' own son Drusus, whose wife, Livilla, Sejanus reportedly seduced. After poisoning Drusus, Sejanus waited and then asked for Livilla's hand in marriage. Tiberius refused but then withdrew to the island of Capri in A.D. 25, heartbroken by the death of his son poor fellow. Over all the emperor ** is like our president Daaa!
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