Key Sources

• Tacitus, Annales
• Cassius Dio, Roman History, 57
• Cassius Dio, Roman History, 58
• Suetonius, Life of Tiberius
• Velleius Paterculus, Roman History, [account of Tiberius under Augustus]
• Key documents
  • Senatus Consultum de Cn Pisone Patre

Issues

• Source Issues
  • Tiberius and Tacitus
  • Tacitus and Domitian
  • Domitian and Tiberius
  • The Sources of our Sources
• Accession and the Accession Debate
• The Mutinies of AD 14
• Germanicus
  • In the Augustan Family
  • In the literary sources
  • The Mutinies
  • Campaigns in Germany
  • In the East
  • Death of Germanicus
  • Agrippina and Interment of Germanicus
  • Conclusions: Germanicus and Tiberius
  • The Trial of Piso
    • The Senatus Consultum de Cn Pisone Patre
• Sejanus
  • Death of Drusus
  • The Dominance of Sejanus
  • Partner in Power
  • Fall of Agrippina
  • Death of Sejanus
  • Damnation and Memory
• Tiberius and the Senate
  • Trials Before Sejanus
  • Trial of Junius Silanus
  • Trials under Sejanus
  • Sex and the Emperor
  • The Senate and the Aged Emperor
  • Republicanism
• Military Policy
• Administration
• Key Questions

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