"So it is true? Tiberius will be your heir?"
"There is no other," the imperator sighed with a voice filled with resignation and regret. "Tiberius" son is too young and all the others are dead."
Tiberius Julius Caesar was Octavius" adopted son. The son of his second wife, Livia Drusilla. Tiberius" true father was a Claudian. Tiberius Claudius Nero. Octavius ordered the older Tiberius to divorce his wife, Livia Drusilla, in order that she would be free to marry the Imperator. It was a messy, sordid affair how Tiberius became a Julii. An even worse and more sordid affair happened. A few years later when Octavius, eager to marry his daughter to the heir of the empire, commanded Tiberius to divorce his first wife and marry Caesar"s oldest daughter, Julia the Elder.
For the glory of the empir
