Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Character of the Emperors
- Tiberius
- Disciplinarian SUE. Tib 19
- A military with stubborn defatigability SUE. Tib. 16
- Dour and miserable SUE. Tib. 21; 34. TAC 138
- Augustus - 'Poor Rome, doomed to be ground by those slow-moving jaws'
- Hardly a family guy?
- Livia
- Quarrelled openly with Livia - she responded by bring out letters
from Augustus detailing his less than desirable qualities which
was said to be the main reason for his retirement to Capreae
- Visited her once in her last three years, didn't attend her funeral
- Wouldn't allow her to be deified.
- Annulled her will and used it to wreak revenge on her friends
- Sent one eques to the treadmill
- Drusus and Germanicus
- No paternal feelings
- Described G's victories as ineffective
- Cut short the period of mourning for Drusus
- Possibly killed G (through Piso)
- Killed Agrippina and Nero and Drusus Caesar
- Tiberius supported his son Drusus, but this added to G's popularity
- Wants Nero Caesar to stand for quaestorship 5
years ahead of the legal age - the senate laugh
- When the Augusta returned home Tib. rushed back to Rome
- Frequently changes mind
- Took him two years to actually enter Rome at the beginning of his reign. Kept saying that he was going to tour the provinces.
- Nicknamed 'Caliipides' - keeps running but never advances a single step
- Cruel and depraved
- Biberius Caldius Mero (means he was a hard drinker)
- Pans/nymphs/minnows
- Orgies
- Oral sex painting by Parrhasius (Atalanta and Meleager)
- Killled Agrippina (beaten till eye), Nero Caesar (commit suicide) and Drusus Caesar (Starved)
- became more cruel after Sejanus
- had his children raped
- Archelaus
- Sejanus' daughter was raped
- Agrippina and Drusus and Nero Caesar's deaths
- Cliffs and Torture
- Accused Sextus Marius (rich Spaniard) of incest
- Paranoia
- Fish/Crab debacle
- Left Rome 26CE
- Made his granddaughters marry below their rank
- Drusilla + Cassius (Plebeian)
- Julia Livilla + Vinicius (Equite)
- 'Terror had paralysed human sympathy'
- Ordered the execution of all those implicated with Sejanus
- Capable of tolerating abuse