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Explanation: When Augustus, the first Roman Emperor, was looking for successors, he suffered a plague of bad luck. Heir after heir died before Augustus did - from his best friend and most successful general, Agrippa, to his gifted and brilliant grandchildren. Eventually, the only suitable heir who was left was Augustus’s stepson, Tiberius. The thing is, while Tiberius was an intelligent and accomplished man, he was also a notoriously gloomy man who didn’t even want to be Emperor. As such, Augustus was truly desperate to go to Tiberius in search of an heir!
It gets more dramatic.
Augustus forces Tiberius to divorce his wife and marry his [Augustus] daughter, Julia (the elder). Tiberius is not happy about this at all.
Eventually it comes out that Julia is unfaithful to Tiberius, which Augustus is probably aware of and maybe even encourages, and Augustus has her exiled to an island.
After Augstus’ death, Tiberius takes away whatever possessions Julia has left and basically has her starved to death.
