Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. Illustrations XI
4. Preface XIII
5. Chronological table XIV
6. Abbreviations XVIII
7. I. Tiberius' childhood: the political background
8. 1. The end of the republic 3
9. 2. Tiberius' birth and infancy: the triumvirate 7
10. 3. The Augustan Principate 11
11. II. Tiberius and Augustus
12. 1. Tiberius' first steps in public life 14
13. 2. The succession: Marcellus and the sons of Agrippa 18
14. 3. The northern frontier: Rhaetia and Vindelicia 23
15. 4. The succession: Tiberius' marriage to Julia 24
16. 5. The northern frontier: Illyricum and Germany 26
17. 6. Tiberius' retirement to Rhodes 29
18. 7. Tiberius' adoption 37
19. 8. The northern frontier: Germany and Pannonia 40
20. 9. Tiberius the successor of Augustus 48
21. III. The accession of Tiberius
22. 1. The death of Augustus and the removal of Agrippa postumus 52
23. 2. The interim and the meeting of the senate on 17 September 54
24. IV. Germanicus and drusus
25. 1. The mutinies on the Danube and the Rhine 62
26. 2. The German campaigns of 15 78
27. 3. The German campaign of 1 6 86
28. 4. The trial of Libo and the rising of Clemens 93
29. 5. Drusus in Illyricum 97
30. 6. Germanicus in the east 102
31. 7. The trial of Piso 120
32. 8. The succession: Drusus and the sons of Germanicus 126
33. V. Tiberius as princeps, a.d. 14-26
34. 1. Senate and magistrates 131
35. 2. The equestrian order and the people 144
36. 3. Honours and titles 150
37. 4. Religion 152
38. 5. The law of maiestas 159
39. 6. The provinces 172
40. 7. Tiberius and the precepts of Augustus 184
41. VI. Seianus
42. 1. The rise of Seianus 190
43. 2. Seianus' ambitions 192
44. 3. Seianus and the death of Drusus 193
45. 4. From drusus' death to tiberius' withdrawal to capreae 199
46. 5. The supremacy of Seianus 215
47. 6. The fall of Seianus 226
48. VII. The last years
49. 1. Tiberius and Rome after Seianus' fall 238
50. 2. The eastern frontier 256
51. 3. The succession: Gaius and Tiberius Gemellus 259
52. 4. Tiberius' death 260
53. Conclusion 263
54. Stemma 267
55. The sources 271
56. Tacitus 271
57. Suetonius 278