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Tiberius and trying
Tiberius ' heir was his younger brother Gaius, who would share Tiberius ' fate, a decade later, while trying to apply even more revolutionary legislation.

Tiberius and above
The historians Tacitus and Cassius Dio depict an overweening, even domineering dowager, ready to interfere in Tiberius ’ decisions, the most notable instances being the case of Urgulania ( grandmother of Claudius's first wife Plautia Urgulanilla ), a woman who correctly assumed that her friendship with the empress placed her above the law, and Munatia Plancina, suspected of murdering Germanicus and saved at Livia's entreaty.
* Archelaus of Cilicia ( died 38 ), son to the above and Client King under Roman Emperor Tiberius in the 1st century AD
On Caesar, Augustus and above all on his patron Tiberius, he lavishes praise or flattery.
* Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus ( consul 215 BC ), son of the above
* Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus ( d. 174 BC ), son of the above, elected to the priesthood in 203 BC at a very young age
* Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus ( c. 165 BC-133 BC ), better known as Tiberius Gracchus, son of the above

Tiberius and head
Her great-uncle Tiberius had already become emperor and the head of the family after the death of Augustus in 14.
Of its coins the most ancient bear the Phoenician inscription abdrt with the head of Melkart and a tunny-fish ; those of Tiberius ( who seems to have made the place a colonia ) show the chief temple of the town with two tunny-fish erect in the form of columns.
After the reign of Augustus ' immediate successor Tiberius, being proclaimed imperator was transformed into the act of accession to the head of state.
Shortly afterward, Macro ( Guido Mannari ), the head of the Praetorian Guards, appears to tell the young man that his great uncle ( Tiberius ) demands that he report at once to the Island of Capri, where Tiberius has been residing for a number of years with a close friend Nerva ( John Gielgud ), a dim-witted relative Claudius ( Giancarlo Badessi ), and Caligula's younger stepbrother Gemellus ( Bruno Brive ) ( Tiberius's favorite ).
Figure # 18 has the least information, but the helmet upon his head leads some to believe that he might be a Macedonian soldier of King Rhoemetalces, who helped Tiberius in Pannonia.
However, the winds of realpolitik soon shifted, and the new emperor, Tiberius III, offered Busir a substantial bounty for his brother-in-law's head.

Tiberius and life
After the longest reign since Augustus ( surpassing Tiberius by a couple of months ), Antoninus died of fever at Lorium in Etruria, about twelve miles ( 19 km ) from Rome, on 7 March 161, giving the keynote to his life in the last word that he uttered when the tribune of the night-watch came to ask the password —" aequanimitas " ( equanimity ).
Throughout her life, Agrippina always prized her descent from Augustus, upbraiding Tiberius for persecuting the blood of his predecessor ; Tacitus, in writing of the occasion, believed this behaviour to be part of the beginning of " the chain of events leading to Agrippina's end.
Tacitus provides some information on Caligula's life under Tiberius.
Josephus records three short-lived marriages in Berenice's life, the first which took place sometime between 41 and 43, to Marcus Julius Alexander, brother of Tiberius Julius Alexander and son of Alexander the Alabarch of Alexandria.
The life of Claudius provided Graves with a way to write about the first four Emperors of Rome ( Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, and Claudius ) from an intimate point of view.
In 25 AD he was forced by Sejanus who was praetorian prefect under Tiberius to take his life after being accused of maiestas.
He attempted to warn Tiberius Gracchus of the plots against his life on the day that he was killed ; in 121 BC, having supported Gaius Gracchus in his reform program and tried to lead an armed resistance against the Senate, he and his elder son were tracked down and executed ( beheaded ) without trial on the orders of the consul Lucius Opimius ; a youngest son, too young to have participated in any plotting or armed revolt, died in prison, again without trial.
In his life of the emperor Tiberius, who was a scion of the Claudii, the historian Suetonius gives a summary of the gens, and says, " as time went on it was honoured with twenty-eight consulships, five dictatorships, seven censorships, six triumphs, and two ovations.
* Claudius Quintianus Pompeianus, a young senator, and the son-in-law of Tiberius Claudius Pompeianus and Lucilla ; he was persuaded by Lucilla to attempt the life of her brother, the emeperor Commodus, but failed and was put to death.
I would dare to take an oath solemnly, swearing that, except for those who have murdered Tiberius Gracchus, no enemy has foisted so much difficulty and so much distress upon me as you have because of the matters: you should have shouldered the responsibilities of all of those children whom I had in the past, and to make sure that I might have the least anxiety possible in my old age ; and that, whatever you did, you would wish to please me most greatly ; and that you would consider it sacrilegious to do anything of great significance contrary to my feelings, especially as I am someone with only a short portion of my life left.
Despite the disadvantages posed by his Alexandrian and Jewish origin, Tiberius Alexander was evidently well enough connected for an equestrian career in Roman public life.
However, all evidences show that Marcus Lepidus maintained Tiberius ’ trust during all his life.
Our primary source for him is Plutarch's life of Tiberius.
For a majority of the story, Julia and her father, Augustus, are at the centre of the story as Augustus recalls his life to her just before she is about to marry Tiberius.

Tiberius and was
He was succeeded as Emperor by his adopted son ( also stepson and former son-in-law ) Tiberius.
She was the second granddaughter of the Emperor Augustus, sister-in-law, stepdaughter and daughter-in-law of the Emperor Tiberius, mother of the Emperor Caligula, maternal second cousin and sister-in-law of the Emperor Claudius and the maternal grandmother of the Emperor Nero.
Vipsania Agrippina later married senator and consul Gaius Asinius Gallus Saloninus after Tiberius was forced to divorce her and marry Julia the Elder.
The marriage of Julia and Tiberius was not a happy one.
Livia was the first Roman Empress and was Augustus ’ third wife ( from Livia ’ s first marriage to praetor Tiberius Nero, she had two sons: the emperor Tiberius and the general Nero Claudius Drusus.
Germanicus was always favored by his great uncle and hoped that he would succeed Tiberius, who had been adopted by Augustus as his heir and successor.
It was widely suspected that Germanicus had been poisoned or perhaps on the orders of Tiberius, with Agrippina believing he was assassinated.
She was unwise in her complaints about Germanicus ’ death to Tiberius.
This was the last time that Tiberius invited Agrippina to his dinner table.
She was banished on Tiberius ’ orders to the island of Pandataria ( now called Ventotene ) in the Tyrrhenian Sea off the coast of Campania.
The notorious guard Sejanus was murdered in 31 on the orders of Tiberius.
After her death, Tiberius slandered her name and had the senate declare that her birth date was a date of bad omen.
She was a great-granddaughter of the Emperor Augustus, great-niece and adoptive granddaughter of the Emperor Tiberius, sister of the Emperor Caligula, niece and fourth wife of the Emperor Claudius, and mother of the Emperor Nero.
Germanicus ’ father, Drusus the Elder, was the second son of the Empress Livia Drusilla by her first marriage to praetor Tiberius Nero, and was the Emperor Tiberius ’ s younger brother and Augustus ’ s stepson.
Germanicus was a favorite of his great-uncle Augustus, who hoped that Germanicus would succeed his uncle Tiberius, who was Augustus's own adopted son and heir.
This in turn meant that Tiberius was also Agrippina's adoptive grandfather in addition to her paternal great-uncle.
He was the only child of Agrippina the Younger through her first marriage to Domitius, and through her, he was great-great grandson of the Emperor Augustus, great-grandnephew and adoptive great-grandson of the Emperor Tiberius, nephew of the Emperor Caligula, as well as great-nephew and stepson of the Emperor Claudius.

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