By Robin Seager
- The such a lot readable account on hand of the lifetime of Tiberius, the second one Roman emperor.
- Argues that Tiberius’ personality presents the main to figuring out his reign.
- Portrays Tiberius as a guy whose virtues and ideology have been corrupted by means of power.
- Shows how Tiberius’ fears of conspiracy and assassination brought on him to lose his grab of reality.
- A new afterword discusses vital new proof that has come to mild at the reign of Tiberius.
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