Never the preferred heir, Tiberius (42 BC – 37 AD / reigned 14 – 37 AD) soon showed why Augustus had wanted someone else. His political inability, poor judgment ...

For anyone who saw the BBC series I, Claudius, the image of Livia will be forever linked with the elegant and darkly humorous performance by Siân Phillips, the Welsh actress. The wife of Augustus ...

Not long ago, in the year 14 CE, Tiberius Caesar Augustus became the second emperor of Rome. (I mention this because, as we all know, history repeats itself, and so we need to pay attention.) Tiberius ...

A new TV series tells the story of Livia Drusilla, who became the most powerful woman in the world as the wife of the first Roman Emperor Augustus Caesar. As viewers might expect from a show set in ...