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Tiberius, 2nd Edition

Robin Seager 

ISBN: 978-0-470-77541-7

April 2008

Wiley-Blackwell

336 pages

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Tiberius, 2nd Edition

Robin Seager

E-Book
978-0-470-77541-7
April 2008
CAD $43.99
Paperback
978-1-405-11529-2
January 2005
CAD $54.95
Hardcover
978-1-405-11528-5
January 2005
CAD $185.99
Description

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.
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).

Features

  • An updated edition of this classic biography originally published in the 1970s.
  • The most readable account available of the life of Tiberius, the second Roman emperor.
  • Argues that Tiberius’s character provides the key to understanding his reign.
  • Portrays Tiberius as a man whose virtues and beliefs were corrupted by power.
  • Shows how Tiberius’s 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.
Series
Blackwell Ancient Lives
To Purchase this product, please visit
https://dev.store.wiley.com/en-ca/Tiberius%2C+2nd+Edition-p-9780470775417