Tiberius 2e

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: 338
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.98h x 6.36w x 1.00d
ISBN13: 9781405115292
ISBN10: 1405115297
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Presidents & Heads of State
- Biography & Autobiography | Historical
- History | Ancient | Rome

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).

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