When one examines the accession of Tiberius to his imperial position, one extreme (?) question must be looked at with very open eyes and that is did Augustus want to establish a dynastic government and if so, did he truly want Tiberius to inherit or was it merely that Augustus had no other place to turn. The purpose of the paper is prove? that Augustus' motives were clear, first, to establish a dynastic government, second, establish …showed first 75 words of 2240 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2240 total…been answered, in such that he was chosen to rule, but not for as long as he had. Tiberius was intended to be a kind of suffex emperor, a man who would lead in the absence of the true leader. in closing, perhaps Augustus put it best when he said, upon his death bed, fabula acta est, perhaps a key into the mind of a conspirator who shadowed his true intention in past Republican Light.