Tiberius

Part of The Classics Podcast · The Classical Association: revision, myth and interviews; only the Roman episodes are indexed

With Andrew Wallace-Hadrill

Part of Life of Caesar

Eighty-four minutes on March 37, when Tiberius was seventy-seven and had been emperor for twenty-two years. The title refers to the report that he woke up after being declared dead, and the episode weighs whether that happened.

Part of Ancient Warfare Podcast

With Lindsay Powell

Lindsay Powell on his own biography, eighty-two minutes on Tiberius as a commander: Pannonia, Illyricum, the Rhine after Varus. The soldiering fills the decades the scandal usually swallows.

Part of Roman Emperors: Totalus Rankium

Tiberius scored against the show's fixed categories, which produces a better defence of him than most narratives manage. Eighty minutes.

Part of The Partial Historians

Two shows on Tiberius for over an hour, disagreeing about how much of Tacitus is reporting and how much is literature.

Part of Life of Caesar

Three provincial revolts in the twenties, put down without the emperor leaving Italy. An hour on an empire that ran itself while its head sulked.

Part of Life of Caesar

The German campaigns before the throne, where Tiberius was the steadiest general Rome had. An hour on the career that made the reign look so odd.

Part of The Partial Historians

Two shows in one room on Tiberius, the heir nobody wanted and the emperor who left Rome for Capri. An hour of argument between hosts who read the sources differently.

Part of The Rest Is History

Part two, fifty-eight minutes on Tiberius and on Suetonius, whose biography of him is the most salacious he wrote and the reason the reputation stuck.

Part of The Ancients

With Daisy Dunn

Daisy Dunn on the general who won back the German frontier and then spent eleven years on Capri. Fifty-three minutes; the episode opens with a warning about its subject matter and earns it.

Part of The Pax Romana Podcast

Twenty-four minutes on the accession debate in the senate, where Tiberius refused the powers until they insisted and nobody could tell whether he meant it.

Part of The Classics Podcast · The Classical Association: revision, myth and interviews; only the Roman episodes are indexed

With Sam Moorhead

Part of The History of Rome

Duncan on the reign that kept the machine running and made everybody miserable, including the phrase the crowds shouted at his funeral. Twenty-two minutes.

Part of The Classics Podcast · The Classical Association: revision, myth and interviews; only the Roman episodes are indexed

Part of Emperors of Rome

Seventeen minutes on a man who had retired to Rhodes and been recalled because everyone ahead of him died. The reluctance was real and it never wore off.

Part of Emperors of Rome

Capri, Sejanus, and the treason trials run by letter from an island. Seventeen minutes on an emperor who governed Rome for eleven years without visiting it.

Part of The Classics Podcast · The Classical Association: revision, myth and interviews; only the Roman episodes are indexed

Part of The Classics Podcast · The Classical Association: revision, myth and interviews; only the Roman episodes are indexed

Part of Life of Caesar

Sejanus at the height of his power and the letter to the senate that ended him in an afternoon. The purge that followed ran for years.

Part of Life of Caesar

The Graves novel and the BBC serial read against Tacitus, who supplied most of the poison in both. A long conversation about where the fiction starts.