The Rise of the Praetorian Guard
Dan Snow's History Hit
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What's Happening in the History of Tiberius?
There is no title emperor. So what's happening is he is already, assuming he's given powers by 14 to all intents so purposes. He has the tribunat power and a whole series of consuls that he can clock up in his history. And there are assassination attempts against him. But if everything is so secure ht, i wonder whether that's the case,. There are no major problems in terms of coming formard with an army and challenging him. You could argue that that was partly because he had these praetorians there - right? I mean, who was actually going to do that when there's tently three thousand troops on the doorstep?"
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