058- Partner of my Labors
The History of Rome
Mike Duncan
4.8 • 13.9K Ratings
🗓️ 1 March 2010
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
After the death of Tiberius's son Drusus, Praetorian Prefect Lucius Sejanus's influence grew exponentially. Sejanus was the defacto ruler of Rome from 26 AD until his fall from power 5 years later.
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| 0:40.4 | to recommend picking up sweetonious lives of the 12 Caesars, the unabridged one, of course, |
| 0:45.3 | or volume one of Tacitus's annals of Imperial Rome, both of which I draw from for this week's |
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| 1:02.4 | Hello and welcome to the history of Rome. Episode 58, partner of MyLabers. |
| 1:10.8 | Last week, we followed the aborted career of Germanicus who died under mysterious circumstances in |
| 1:16.4 | 1980. Whether the charges were true or not, Tiberius was widely believed to have played a role in |
| 1:21.7 | the death of the popular young prince and the Emperor's popularity with the people suffered as a |
| 1:26.3 | result. Never personable to begin with, Tiberius did not enjoy the kind of respect a |
| 1:31.6 | gustous had garnered so naturally. With the death of Germanicus, the distance between the Emperor |
| 1:36.9 | and his people only widened. But even still, through these early years, Tiberius was a prudent |
| 1:42.8 | and dedicated ruler. He had taken to heart Augustus' injunction not to embroil the empire in |
| 1:48.3 | foreign wars and did his best to resolve border disputes peacefully without resorting to the kind |
| 1:53.1 | of military adventurism that Germanicus pursued with such zeal. The money saved by not having to |
| 1:58.9 | keep up active campaigns on numerous fronts was spent elsewhere improving the infrastructure of |
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