![]() ![]() In 31 BC, Augustus defeated Mark Antony and Cleopatra at the Battle of Actium. She gave birth to Tiberius' brother, named Nero Livia and Octavian married in 39 BC, while she was pregnant with a second child to her first husband. ![]() Tiberius' father would die six years later. The young Tiberius, who would be nine years old at the time, would deliver the eulogy at the funeral. Livia and Tiberius would move into Octavian's household while So, when Tiberius was almost four years old, his parents divorced, and Octavian became his stepfather. Tiberius' father was forced to divorce his wife so that Octavian could marry Octavian instead. In love with Tiberius' mother, Livia Drusilla, on first sight. Upon returning to Rome, Octavian (who would later become emperor Augustus) is said to have fallen During the fighting between these two men, Tiberius and his family.įor three years, they lived in different parts of Italy and Sicily to avoid Octavian. Octavian when the Second Triumvirate broke down. In that same year, young Tiberius was born, but the family had to go into temporary exile from Rome because Tiberius' father supported Mark Antony against Following Julius Caesar's assassination in 44 BC, Tiberius' father returned to political life in Rome under the Second Triumvirate Served as quaestor under Julius Caesar during the civil war with Pompey the Great. Tiberius was born into a patrician family with close ties to the Julii Caesares, the first Imperial family of Rome. ![]()
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