Edward Champlin

Rome's second emperor, Tiberius (42 BCE-CE 37), has traditionally been seen as a villainous hypocrite—treacherous, grasping, vindictive, and depraved. But in Tiberius and His Age, Edward Champlin draws on vast and diverse evidence to show that Tiberius was, and was seen by contemporaries to be, recognisably human and far more complex than the monster of the hostile tradition that began...