Tiberius
c. 42 BCE–c. 37 CE · Rome
Tiberius was the second Julio-Claudian emperor (reigned 14–37 CE), a successful general who later withdrew to Capri, leaving much administration to his praetorian prefect Sejanus. During his reign Pontius Pilate served as Roman prefect of Judaea (the prefect under whom the Gospels and Christian tradition place the trial and crucifixion of Jesus). In 19 CE his government expelled Jews from the city of Rome and conscripted some 4,000 to military service in Sardinia (the conscription reported by Josephus and Tacitus; the expulsion also noted by Cassius Dio). Philo records that after the fall of Sejanus, Tiberius reversed course and directed officials not to disturb the Jews or their observances.
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About Rome
Rome, on the Tiber in central Italy, grew from an Iron Age settlement into the capital of the Roman Republic and then of an empire that by the 1st century CE ruled the whole Mediterranean. Its Jewish community, attested from the 2nd century BCE, is among the oldest in Europe. Christian tradition holds that the apostles Peter and Paul died there, and the city became the seat of the popes. After the Western Empire ended in 476 it passed to Gothic kings, to Byzantium and then to papal rule as capital of the Papal States, until it became the capital of unified Italy in 1871. Vatican City, independent since 1929, lies within it.
In Rome at the same time
Parthenius of Nicaea, Strabo, Seneca the Elder, Ovid, Celsus, Valerius Maximus
Across the traditions, in Rome at the same time
In the same place & time
Sages whose lives overlapped with Tiberius’s in the same cities, drawn from their recorded journeys.
Across the traditions
In the same tradition
Parthenius of Nicaea, Strabo, Seneca the Elder, Ovid, Celsus, Valerius Maximus, Phaedrus, Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, Columella, Lucius Junius Moderatus, Curtius Rufus, Quintus, Pliny, the Elder, Silius Italicus, Tiberius Catius, Petronius Arbiter, Musonius Rufus, Persius, Quintilian
The world in their lifetime
Thinkers and teachers of other traditions whose lives overlapped with Tiberius’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.
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