Tiberius
Tiberius (42 BCE–date::37 CE)
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Roman Emperor | |
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Reign | 18 September 14 – 16 March 37 |
Full name | Tiberius Caesar Divi Augusti filius Augustus |
Born | 16/11/42BC |
Birthplace | Rome, |
Died | 16 March 37 (aged 77) |
Place of death | Rome |
Buried | Mausoleum of Augustus, Rome |
Predecessor | Augustus, |
Successor | Caligula |
Consort |
Vipsania Agrippina Julia the Elder |
Issue |
Drusus Julius Caesar Tiberillius Germanicus Nero Julius Caesar Drusus Caesar |
Father | Tiberius Claudius Nero |
Mother | Agrippina the Younger |
Great Roman General to Perverted Old Man?
To sum up Tiberius' life the consensus is that he was generally regarded a great General whose victories laid the foundations of the expansion of the Empire northwards. When it seems he has reached the apogee of his career he retires to Rhodes in 6 AD thinking he can live out his years as a wealthy well-connected Roman just enough steps away from the center of power to be of no threat to anyone seeking to become Augustus's successor.
, emperor Julius Caesar Augustus (14–37 CE), son of Tiberius Claudius
Nero and Livia. He first marries Vipsania Agrippina, the daughter of Marcus Agrippa,
and fathers two children by her, but, after Agrippa’s death in 12, he is forced by Augustus
to DIVORCE and marry JULIA MAIOR, Agrippa’s widow and Augustus’s daughter.
After she gives BIRTH to a child that dies soon after, Tiberias stops having sex with her.
He retires to Rhodes in 6, out of favor with Augustus. After Julia’s banishment in 2,
Augustus procures Tiberius a divorce. He returns to Rome in 2 CE.
Early in his reign, in 27, he retires to the island of Capri. There, Tiberius reportedly
acquires infants to nurse on his penis, and boys and girls, whom he called pisciculi, “little
fishes,” to arouse him by nibbling at him when he goes BATHING, or to play Pan and
nymphs in special groves called Caprinea. He converts the latrines (sellaria; pl. 37) of
Capri into male BROTHELS for which he procures “fancy boys,” sellarii (CINAEDI),
one of whom is the future emperor Vitellius (Suetonius, Caligula 16.1, Vitellius 3.2). He
also acquires “men of gigantic proportions, whom he called spintriae, to copulate in
threes to excite his failing DESIRES.” He compiles an erotic library and art gallery, SEX
MANUALS by Elephantis and paintings by Parrhasius, especially one that depicted
ATALANTA FELLATING Melcager. And in his OLD AGE, he is accused of being a
CUNNILICTOR; one woman kills herself afterwards, complaining of “the bad breath of
the goat,” capri in Latin, a phrase that became popular in Atellan farces (THEATER).
Once, at a sacrifice, he lusted after the incense bearer and had him brought to his
chamber to rape both him and his flute-playing brother; when they complained, he had
their legs broken. Since it was forbidden to execute virgins, he had the daughter of
Sejanus raped first by the executioner. And he would trick men into drinking vast
amounts of wine, and when they were tortured he would have their penises tied up so
they were unable to urinate (DOGKNOT).
Suetonius, Tiberius.
Tiresias
TIBERIUS attracted both types (Suetonius, Tiberius 43.1, Caligula 16.1);
Vitellius was even nicknamed “Spintria” because as a boy he was rumored to have
prostituted himself with Tiberius at Capri to obtain his father’s political advancement
(Suetonius, Vitellius 3.2).