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Tiberius and His Age: Myth, Sex, Luxury and Power by Edward Champlin, who wrote a weirdly sympathetic biography of Nero. Tiberius, like Nero, has a very negative reputation. About eight years ago Champlin wrote a series of essays that reconstituted him. I thought they were brilliant, and knew he was writing a book. I waited and waited
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