In 16 BC he was appointed governor of Gaul and by 13 BC he held his first consulship. By 20 BC he accompanied Augustus to the east to reclaim the standards lost to the Parthians by Crassus thirty-three years earlier. In 25 BC he already held his first post as an officer in Cantabria. He profoundly disliked gladiatorial games and made no attempt in pretending to do so, in order to win popularity with the ordinary people of Rome. He enjoyed good health, though his skin sometimes suffered from ‘skin eruptions’ – most likely rashes of some sort.Īlso he had a great fear of thunder. Thus, being obviously a second-rate choice as heir to the throne, Tiberius was laden with a feeling of inferiority. Though Tiberius, a large, strong man, had been groomed by Augustus as his successor, he was actually the fourth choice after Agrippa, husband of Augustus’ only daughter Julia, and their sons, Gaius and Lucius, all three of whom died in the lifetime of Augustus. When Tiberius was four his parents parents divorced and his mother instead married Octavian, the later Augustus. When Tiberius was two, his father had to flee Rome from the second triumvirate (Octavian, Lepidus, Mark Antony) because of his republican beliefs (he had fought against Octavian in the civil wars). Tiberius was born in 42 BC, the son of the aristocratic Tiberius Claudius Nero and Livia Drusilla.
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