Summary Succession of Tiberius source summaries

Sources: Succession of Tiberius
Reference Date of Content Purpose Theme
Event
Tacitus Death of Augustus’s death; Tiberius To inform; Succession,
‘Annals’ Augustus, at the start of his reign – to criticise. relationship
1.5-13, succession of his relationship with with the
1.15 Tiberius – individuals and the Senate Senate.
AD14 +/- as a whole; amended
election process.
Suetonius Tiberius’s Tiberius’s involvement in To inform; Relationship
‘Life of succession – Agrippa’s death; speech to to entertain. with the
Augustus’ AD14 +/- the Senate; reluctance and Senate.
22-4 use of power.
Velleius Augustus’s Augustus’s death; To inform; Relationship
Paterculus death, Tiberius’s succession; to praise the with the
2.123-4 Tiberius’s unrest; voting reform. emperorship Senate;
succession – succession.
AD14 +