A.G.G. Gibson holds a PhD in Classics from the University of Edinburgh and is an Honorary Research Fellow in Ancient History at the School of Classics, University of St Andrews.Contributors: Jane Bellemore, Emma Buckley, John Drinkwater, Alisdair Gibson, Josiah Osgood, Roger Rees, Robin Seager, Caroline Vout.

"The essays contained in the collection are all insightful and interesting. (...) Overall both the collection as a whole and the individual contributions are valuable for those interested in how the earliest emperors presented themselves." J. Bert Lott, sehepunkteI 13 (2013), Nr. 12"An insightful work that will be of great value to those interested in the early Empire." The NYMAS Review, No. 57, Winter-Spring 2014, p. 8.

• IntroductionSuetonius and the Succession to Augustus, Josiah OsgoodPerceptions of the Domus Augusta, AD 4-24, Robin SeagerTiberius Julius Caesar Augustus and the invention of succession, Caroline VoutThe Identity of Drusus: the Making of a Princeps, Jane BellemoreThe lousy reputation of Piso, Roger ReesAll things to all men: political perception and reality in AD41, Alisdair GibsonNero insitiuus: constructing Neronian identity in the pseudo-Senecan Octavia, Emma BuckleyNero and the half-baked Principate, John DrinkwaterIndex