TIBERIUS

born November 16, 42 BC died March 16 AD 37, Capreae , near Naples in full Tiberius Caesar Augustus or Tiberius Julius Caesar Augustus, original name Tiberius Claudius Nero second Roman emperor (AD 1437), adopted son of Augustus, whose imperial institutions and imperial boundaries he sought to preserve. In his last years he became a tyrannical recluse, inflicting a reign of terror against the major personages of Rome. Additional reading Robin Seager, Tiberius (1972), a survey of his life; Barbara M. Levick, Tiberius the Politician (1977), a scholarly biography of the public and political aspects of his life; F.B. Marsh, Reign of Tiberius (1931), a standard study; Cornelius Tacitus, The Annals and the Histories, trans. from the Latin by Alfred John Church and William Jackson Brodribb (1952, reissued 1979), a classic source in a workmanlike and reliable translation; Suetonius, The Twelve Caesars, rev. ed., trans. from the Latin by Robert Graves (1957, reissued 1980), a basic source, elegantly translated; Robert Samuel Rogers, Studies in the Reign of Tiberius (1943, reprinted 1972), a basic source for dates and chronologies.