Roman emperor tiberius biography of mahatma
Emperor Tiberius was the second Roman emperor, known for his military conquests and political reforms, who ruled from 14 AD to 37 AD.
Tiberius was an astute military commander who at just the age of 22 helped Rome to bring back the revered Roman legionary standards..
Tiberius (42 BC - 37 AD)
A bust of Tiberius ©Tiberius was the second emperor of Rome and a highly-successful soldier whose reputation for arrogance and debauchery is probably unfounded.
Tiberius Claudius Nero was born on 16 November 42 BC. In 39 BC, his mother Livia divorced his father and married Octavian, the future emperor Augustus in 27 BC. Tiberius had a brilliant military career and with his younger brother Drusus helped carry out the expansion of the Roman empire along the Danube and into modern day Germany (16 BC - 7 BC, 4 AD - 9 AD).
In 11 BC, Augustus forced Tiberius to divorce his wife Vipsania and marry Julia, Augustus' daughter.
In 6 BC, Tiberius abruptly retired to Rhodes.
Caesar Augustus Tiberius, son of the Divine Augustus").In 2 AD, he returned to Rome and in 4 AD, with Augustus's grandsons both dead, Tiberius was adopted as Augustus's son. Tiberius in turn adopted his nephew Germanicus (great-nephew of Augustus). He then went on campaign in northern Germany, securing the frontier and returning to Rome a her