Rome’s ruthless upstart was really a savvy insider, until fortune turned her back on him.
The Lecherous Pseudo-Anubis of Josephus and the
While a variety of sources testify to the expulsion of foreign priests from Rome under Tiberius, Josephus is the only ancient author to explain the Emperor
Tiberius, Tacfarinas, and the Jews
Despite this relative wealth of sources, their combined evidence does not allow of a clear explanation as to why exactly Tiberius expelled the Jews from Rome in AD 19. Although they preserve broadly similar accounts of the circumstances surrounding this expulsion, they differ among themselves in several points of detail and interpretation.
Patrons of Greek Cities in the Early Principate
It is well established in scholarly literature that the incidence of formal, civic patronage in the eastern part of the Roman Empire during the Principate decreases precisely at the same time that it dramatically increases in the West.
Tiberiana 1: Tiberian Neologisms
Capri, which will explore the interrelationship between culture and empire, between Tiberius’ intellectual passions (including astrology, gastronomy, medicine, mythology, and literature) and his role as princeps.
Tiberiana 2: Tales of Brave Ulysses
The prime evidence for this was discovered fifty years ago in the numerous fragments of four massive sculptural groups in marble, found by chance in 1957 in a seaside cavern which was part of a large villa complex on the coast at Sperlonga, 65 miles south of Rome.
Tiberiana 3: Odysseus at Rome – a Problem
The choice of a name is contingent on a number of factors or combination of factors, from individual taste to cultural influences, from liking the sound of it (forwhatever reason), to honoring relatives and friends, to expressing admiration for public figures past and present, real, fictional, or divine. Roman patterns of naming were also influenced by the involvement not just of family members but of slave-owners as choosers of names…and by the blending of very different systems of nomenclature in the great tapestry of cultures woven in the capital city.
Tiberiana 4: Tiberius the Wise
This paper examines the extraordinary but scattered evidence for a contemporary perception of Tiberius as the wise and pious old monarch of folklore.