Episode 65. Tiberius, Part One: The Reluctant Successor
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Episode 65. Tiberius, Part One: The Reluctant Successor
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- Acta Arvalia for 14 to 26 CE. Fragmentary but informative for the official cult activities and the public framing of Tiberian governance.
- Cassius Dio. Roman History, Books 57 and 58. Continuous Greek-language narrative. Book 57 covers 14 to 22 CE; Book 58 covers 23 to 29 CE. Sometimes preserves information not in Tacitus.
- Senatus Consultum de Cn. Pisone Patre. The bronze decree of December 10, 20 CE. Already discussed in detail in Episode 63 (Livia, Part Two: Julia Augusta). Referenced here as the documentary anchor for the Piso material, not re-analyzed.
- Suetonius. Life of Tiberius. Chapters 23 to 43 cover the period of this episode. Gives the gossip, the family details, the personal habits. Less analytically structured than Tacitus, but contains material Tacitus did not.
- Tabula Hebana and Tabula Siarensis. Bronze copies of the senatorial decrees voted in honour of Germanicus after his death in 19 CE. These give us the official Senate and Tiberian-court framing of the loss.
- Tacitus. Annals, Books 1 through 4. The single largest narrative source for these years. Books 1 to 3 cover 14 to 22 CE; Book 4 covers 23 to 28 CE. The most analytically sophisticated ancient account of any Roman emperor, and the most hostile portrait of Tiberius. Used carefully—Tacitus is brilliant and limited in specific ways that the episode acknowledges throughout.
- Velleius Paterculus. History of Rome, 2.125 to 131. The contemporary witness. Velleius was a Tiberian loyalist who served on the Pannonian and German campaigns and who wrote his history during Tiberius's reign. His account is openly admiring of Tiberius. The standard scholarly position has been to dismiss it as sycophantic, but the dismissal is too easy. Velleius is what a serving Roman senator under Tiberius actually wrote about Tiberius, and the perspective he gives us is irrecoverable from Tacitus.
- Barrett, Anthony. Livia: First Lady of Imperial Rome. Yale University Press, 2002. Already cited for Episode 63, but relevant for the first half of Tiberius's reign through the Piso trial.
- Champlin, Edward. “Tiberius the Wise.” Historia, 2008. A useful corrective on the question of how aware Tiberius was of his own image management.
- Levick, Barbara. Tiberius the Politician. Revised edition, Routledge, 1999. The standard modern revisionist treatment. The reference for almost every analytical decision in this episode.
- Seager, Robin. Tiberius. Second edition, Blackwell, 2005. The other major modern biography. More cautious than Levick but covers the same ground.
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