


Tiberius married Vipsania Agrippina in about 20 BCE. His mother divorced and remarried Octavian (Augustus) in 39 BCE. Tiberius was the son of Tiberius Claudius Nero and Livia Drusilla. If that weren't enough, Tiberius angered the senators by invoking treason ( maiestas) charges against his enemies, and while in Capri he may have engaged in sexual perversions that were unsavory for the times and would be criminal in the U.S. Aelius Sejanus, in charge back at Rome, he sealed his everlasting fame. When he went into self-imposed exile to the island of Capri and left the ruthless, ambitious Praetorian Prefect, L. Tiberius was neither the first choice of Augustus nor popular with the Roman people. Tiberius, the second emperor of Rome (born 42 BCE, died 37 CE) reigned as Emperor between 14–37 CE. Note that although the word Caesar signifies the ruler of the Roman emperor, in the case of the first of the Caesars, it was just his name.

