Nobody expected Claudius to become emperor. Although he was the only surviving heir of Augustus and was the brother of the war hero, Germanicus ... had succeeded where Caesar had failed.

A s was the Roman custom, Augustus adopted his stepson Tiberius as his heir, and Tiberius became Rome’s second emperor in 14 CE. Ancient authors did not remember Tiberius kindly, inevitably ...

Pagan Rome, 37 A.D. As the frail, syphilis-ridden, and half-mad Emperor Tiberius nears the end of his reign, Prince Gaius Augustus Germanicus, known as Caligula, arrives at the depraved ruler's ...

ISBN: 978-0-521-70825-8 In Claudius Caesar Osgood gives us not so much ... institutions and expanding the frontiers more than anyone since Augustus. Author of the notable Caesar's Legacy: Civil War ...