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Tiberius (;Classical Latin spelling and reconstructed Classical Latin pronunciation of the names of Tiberius:
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16 November 42 BC – 16 March 37 AD) was a Roman Emperor from 14 AD to 37 AD. Born Tiberius Claudius Nero, a Claudian, Tiberius was the son of Tiberius Claudius Nero and Livia Drusilla. His mother divorced Nero and married Octavian, later known as Augustus, in 39 BC, making him a step-son of Octavian.
Tiberius would later marry Augustus' daughter (from his marriage to Scribonia), Julia the Elder, and even later be adopted by Augustus, by which act he officially became a Julian, bearing the name Tiberius Julius Caesar. The subsequent emperors after Tiberius would continue this blended dynasty of both families for the following thirty years; historians have named it the Julio-Claudian dynasty. In relations to the other emperors of this dynasty, Tiberius was the stepson of Augustus, grand-uncle of Caligula, paternal uncle of Claudius, and great-grand uncle of Nero.
Tiberius was one of Rome's greatest generals; his conquest of Pannonia, Dalmatia, Raetia, and temporarily, parts of Germania, laid the foundations for the northern frontier. But he came to be remembered as a dark, reclusive, and sombre ruler who never really desired to be emperor; Pliny the Elder called him tristissimus hominum, "the gloomiest of men."
After the death of Tiberius’ son Drusus Julius Caesar in 23 AD, he became more reclusive and aloof. In 26 AD Tiberius removed himself from Rome and left administration largely in the hands of his unscrupulous Praetorian Prefects Lucius Aelius Sejanus and Quintus Naevius Sutorius Macro.
Caligula, Tiberius' grand-nephew and adopted grandson, succeeded Tiberius upon his death.
The Latin personal name Tiberius usually refers to the second Emperor of Rome.
It can also refer to:
Places named Tiberius- Tiberias, an ancient city in Israel named for Tiberius, the second Roman Emperor
- Tiberius Claudius Nero (consul 202 BC)
- Tiberius Coruncanius, consul 280 BC and military commander known for the battles against Pyrrhus of Epirus that led to the expression " Pyrrhic victory"
- Tiberius Gemellus, the son of Drusus Julius Caesar and Livilla
- Tiberius Gracchus Major, Roman general and politician of the 2nd century BC
- Tiberius Gracchus, son of Tiberius Gracchus Major and influential politician
- Tiberius Nero, member of the Claudian family of ancient Rome
- Tiberius II Constantine, Byzantine emperor 574–582
- Tiberius (son of Constans II), Byzantine co-emperor 659–681
- Tiberius III, Byzantine emperor 698–706
- Tiberius (son of Justinian II), Byzantine co-emperor 706–711
- Basil Onomagoulos, Byzantine rebel and usurper in Sicily (717), assumed the regnal name Tiberius
- Saint Tiberius, Christian Martyr and Saint, died 303AD
- Tiberius Hemsterhuis, Dutch philologist and critic
- Tiberius (or θefarie) Velianas, mentioned in the Pyrgi Tablets
- James T. Kirk, full name James Tiberius Kirk. Captain of the starship USS Enterprise (Star Trek)
- Emperor Tiberius, the counterpart of James T. Kirk from the Mirror Universe (Star Trek)
- Lucius Tiberius, fictional Roman Emperor from Arthurian Legend appearing first in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae
- Operation Tiberius, systemic corruption, perversion of justice and bribery in UK police force
- Tiberius Bede (disambiguation), two 8th-century manuscripts of Bede's Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum in the Cotton library
Tiberius (, Tiberios) was Byzantine co-emperor from 659 to 681. He was the focus of a military revolt and was eventually dethroned by his brother, the senior emperor Constantine IV.
Tiberius is a 1991 historical novel by Scottish writer Allan Massie, about the Roman Emperor Tiberius. It is the second in the series of novels Massie wrote about the early Roman Emperors.
Tiberius is a Latin praenomen, or personal name, which was used throughout Roman history. Although not especially common, it was used by both patrician and plebeian families. The feminine form is Tiberia. The name is usually abbreviated Ti., but occasionally Tib.
For most of Roman history, Tiberius was about the twelfth or thirteenth most-common praenomen. It was not used by most families, but was favored by several, including the great patrician houses of the Aemilii, Claudii, and Sempronii. It was probably more widespread amongst the plebeians, and it became more common in imperial times. The name survived the collapse of Roman civil institutions in the 5th and 6th centuries, and continued to be used into modern times.
Tiberius (d. 27 November 602) was a son of Maurice, Byzantine emperor and his wife Constantina. He was executed by new emperor Phocas.
Theophylact Simocatta (Book 8, Chapter 11) reports that Tiberius would have played a significant role in the succession of his father. The will of Maurice would have declared him a co-emperor and ruler of his own areas of the Byzantine Empire. Said areas were old Rome, Italia and the islands of the Tyrrhenian Sea. John Bagnell Bury points that the will was devised in the 15th year of Maurice's reign (597/598) on the occasion of a severe illness. Reports on its contents came from the early reign of Heraclius, almost a decade following the death of Maurice and his sons. "He assigned New Rome and "the East" to his eldest son Theodosius; Old Rome, Italy, and the western islands to his second son Tiberius; while the remaining provinces were to be divided among his other sons, and Domitian of Melitene was appointed their guardian." Bury considered it likely that one of the younger sons would have received Illyricum, another would have inherited Africa. Maurice's plans for division of the empire were derailed by Phocas' revolution. .
Tiberius (, Tiberios) was the only son of the Byzantine emperor Justinian II, and his only child by his second wife Theodora of Khazaria, whom he married ca. 704 whilst in exile among the Khazars. Tiberius was probably born in 705, during his father's absence in a bid to regain the Byzantine throne. Following Justinian's success, Tiberius and his mother were recalled to Constantinople, where the infant was raised to co-emperor. The only thing known of him thereafter is his participation in the festive reception of Pope Constantine I in early 711. Following the overthrow of his father in December 711, he was murdered by the patrikios Mauros and John Strouthos, and buried in the Church of the Holy Unmercenaries.