The Republic in danger : Drusus Libo and the succession of Tiberius / / by Andrew Pettinger.

The volume proposes a new model for understanding the end of Augustus' reign and the succession of Tiberius in the years 6 BC to AD 16. Focusing on Drusus Libo's role in an alliance between the enemies of Tiberius, Pettinger offers a comprehensive analysis of the struggle between Tiberius...

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Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (265 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • An Urgent Summons and a Terrible Charge
  • The Treatment of an Enemy
  • The Adoption of Agrippa Postumus and the Friends of Gaius Caesar
  • Growing Pains
  • The Buck Stops Where?
  • Augustus Final Arrangements
  • The exiles of the younger Julia, D. Junius Silanus, and Ovid
  • Novus Principatus: an Imperial Co-operative
  • The Hesitation of Tiberius
  • "Did You Hear About Agrippa?"
  • Germanicus: Successor to Tiberius or Augustus?
  • Alternative Government.