Tiberius

Robin Seager has updated his classic biography of Tiberius, which focuses on the Emperor's complex character as the key to understanding his reign.

• The most readable account available of the life of Tiberius, the second Roman emperor.
• Argues that Tiberius' character provides the key to understanding his reign.
• Portrays Tiberius as a man whose virtues and beliefs were corrupted by power.
• Shows how Tiberius' fears of conspiracy and assassination caused him to lose his grasp of reality.
• A new afterword discusses important new evidence that has come to light on the reign of Tiberius.

Author: Robin Seager
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 01/28/2005
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.98h x 6.36w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781405115292

About the Author

Robin Seager is Reader in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Liverpool. He is the author of Pompey: A Political Biography (1979), Ammianus Marcellinus: Seven Studies in His Language and Thought (1986) and Pompey the Great (Blackwell, 2002).