Tiberius Caesar
42 BC – 37 · Generation III · Roman emperor (r. AD 14–37) · Julio-Claudian
Tiberius (42 BC – AD 37). Roman emperor (r. AD 14–37). Married Julia around 11 BC; they were set apart in AD 2. Livia’s son, adopted by Augustus after every preferred heir had died; he withdrew to Capri and ruled by letter. Before the purple he ranked among Rome's finest soldiers, conquering Pannonia, Dalmatia and Raetia and campaigning into Germania to secure the empire's northern edge. As emperor he administered well and left the treasury enormously enriched, but from the beginning his relations with the Senate were sour and mistrustful. After the deaths of his nephew Germanicus and his son Drusus he withdrew from Rome, leaving government largely to the praetorian prefect Sejanus — until, in 31, he had his ambitious deputy condemned and put to death for treason. He refused worship as a living god, permitting only a single temple at Smyrna to honour his genius together with the Senate's, and at his death the Senate gave him a grand funeral but withheld deification. Pliny the Elder called him “the gloomiest of men.”
One of 16 people of Julio-Claudian (69 BC–68) in this archive. Rome’s first imperial family: the Julii and the Claudii joined by marriage and adoption, Augustus to Nero.
Line of descent: Gaius Octavius of Velitrae → Augustus Caesar → Tiberius Caesar.
Parents
- Tiberius Claudius Nero (85 BC – 33 BC)
- Livia Drusilla (59 BC – 29)
- Augustus Caesar (63 BC – 14)
Siblings
- Julia the Elder (39 BC – 14) (adopted)
- Drusus the Elder (38 BC – 9 BC)
Partners
- Married Julia the Elder (39 BC – 14) in 11 BC; they separated in 2
Children
- Germanicus Caesar (15 BC – 19)
Life
- 42 BC — Born
- 11 BC — Married Julia
- 2 — Parted from Julia
- 37 — Died