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The Rise of the Praetorian Guard

Dan Snow's History Hit

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The Slave Revolt in Italy

There may have ben events that were suppressed, but not recorded. I discovered this reading tacitus a while ago. And it was basing a slave revolt that happened in italy. So tiberius immediately sends pretorians and other people he's got toi to deal with this situation  tat e diffuse it completely. He chose that because he wanted to show that he had power, and he could see things all over. But you know, i think the significant terms of significant events, what we also don't know, by the way, again, because the historiant tell us us, is there may have been more than one group working for him.

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