Introduction

Episode 55, tuterberg nightmares. When we left off last week augustus was dealing with the fall out from the sudden retirement of his stepson tiberius in six b c. The next decade will bring even more hardship for the imperial family as the fates intervened to visit every misery imaginable on the house of caesar. But beyond the internal problems of the first family, the whole empire will soon be visit with the disaster to rival the massacre at canny and the parthian annihilation of crassus. Eastern legions. Rome had spent its life expanding always and ever outward. Augustus could already see that the endless growth could not continue forever. That was why the disaster in