Then, from 9 BC to 7 BC, Tiberius fought in Germany. Then, after the death of Agrippa in 12 BC, Augustus forced a reluctant Tiberius to divorce his wife Vipsania, in order to marry, Julia, Augustus’ own daughter and widow of Agrippa. In 16 BC he was appointed governor of Gaul and by 13 BC he held his first consulship. By 20 BC he accompanied Augustus to the east to reclaim the standards lost to the Parthians by Crassus thirty-three years earlier.

In 25 BC he already held his first post as an officer in Cantabria.

He profoundly disliked gladiatorial games and made no attempt in pretending to do so, in order to win popularity with the ordinary people of Rome. He enjoyed good health, though his skin sometimes suffered from ‘skin eruptions’ – most likely rashes of some sort. Thus, being obviously a second-rate choice as heir to the throne, Tiberius was laden with a feeling of inferiority. Though Tiberius, a large, strong man, had been groomed by Augustus as his successor, he was actually the fourth choice after Agrippa, husband of Augustus’ only daughter Julia, and their sons, Gaius and Lucius, all three of whom died in the lifetime of Augustus. When Tiberius was four his parents parents divorced and his mother instead married Octavian, the later Augustus. When Tiberius was two, his father had to flee Rome from the second triumvirate (Octavian, Lepidus, Mark Antony) because of his republican beliefs (he had fought against Octavian in the civil wars).

Tiberius was born in 42 BC, the son of the aristocratic Tiberius Claudius Nero and Livia Drusilla. Married (1) Vipsania (one son, Drusus 13 BC – AD23) (2) Julia, daughter of Augustus.33 BC) and Livia Drusilla (c.58 BC – AD 29), who married Augustus in 39 BC.

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