LordBest's Gallery of Roman Emperors and Empresses.

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Tiberius

Tiberius became the stepson of Augustus when the emperor married Livia in 38 BC. Augustus forced to him to divorce the wife he loved and marry Augustus' daughter Julia. He hated his new wife and escaped her by going into voluntary exile in Rhodes in 6 B.C. After the deaths of the other possible successors, he was recalled in 2 A.D. and groomed to succeed Augustus, which he did on 14 August 19. The empire thrived under Tiberius, however, his reign was marred by a conspiracy to rule by his Praetorian Praefect Sejanus and by his decent into paranoia near the end of his reign. Tiberius moved to Capri in 26, and ruled from there until his natural death on 16 March 37.