42 B.C. -
37 A.D. 2nd
Emperor of
Rome (
14 A.D.-
37 A.D.). In
Robert Graves'
I, Claudius (acted by
George Baker in the
BBC miniseries), he is
portrayed as a
disciplined
general (he was
governor of
Gaul for a while, and
campaigned against the
Germans), but a puppet of his mother,
Livia (second wife of
Augustus Caesar, the first
Roman Emperor) and personally
decadent in his later years. As Emperor, he cut
luxury spending and initiated some
tax reforms. This improved
the Empire's finances but blew his
popularity with the Roman
aristocracy. He eventually grew
paranoid, and moved to
Capri, from which island he ruled the Empire until his death. Tiberius was played by
Peter O'Toole in the
Bob Guccione-directed film of
Gore Vidal's
screenplay,
Caligula.
Roman Emperors enumerated