Adopted by Caesar, Augustus (c ... With his two grandsons already dead, power passed to his stepson, Tiberius. Augustus had ended 100 years of civil war and achieved over 40 years of internal ...

A s was the Roman custom, Augustus adopted his stepson Tiberius as his heir, and Tiberius became Rome’s second emperor in 14 CE. Ancient authors did not remember Tiberius kindly, inevitably ...