The Republic in Danger

• Introduction
• p. 1

• 1
• An Urgent Summons and a Terrible Charge
• p. 5

• The narrative
• p. 5

• An emergency sitting of the senate
• p. 9

• A terrible charge
• p. 17

• 2
• The Treatment of an Enemy
• p. 29

• Inability to obtain defence counsel
• p. 29

• Drusus Libo in custodia
• p. 35

• Damnatio memoriae and public offerings of thanks
• p. 37

• 3
• The Adoption of Agrippa Postumus and the Friends of Gaius Caesar
• p. 47

• The adoption of Agrippa
• p. 47

• The wrong friends
• p. 53

• 4
• Growing Pains
• p. 61

• Agrippa and the toga virilis
• p. 61

• Abdicatio and Agrippa
• p. 67

• 5
• The Buck Stops Where?
• p. 75

• The crisis
• p. 75

• The sedition of Tiberius' rival L. Aemilius Paullus
• p. 93

• 6
• Augustus' Final Arrangements
• p. 103

• The relegatio of Agrippa
• p. 103

• The Lex Valeria Cornelia
• p. 107

• The elections of AD 7
• p. 114

• 7
• The Exiles of the Younger Julia, D. Junius Silanus, and the poet Ovid
• p. 123

• 8
• Novus Principatus: An Imperial Co-operative
• p. 135

• 9
• The Hesitation of Tiberius
• p. 157

• 10
• "Did You Hear About Agrippa?"
• p. 169

• 11
• Germanicus: Successor to Tiberius or Augustus?
• p. 185

• 12
• Alternative Government
• p. 195

• An awkward alliance
• p. 195

• A false dawn
• p. 207

• Future directions
• p. 215

• Appendix 1
• A Prosopography of M. Scribonius Drusus Libo
• p. 219

• Appendix 2
• Family Trees
• p. 233

• Appendix 3
• Timeline
• p. 235

• 6 BC-AD 13
• p. 235

• AD 14-AD 16
• p. 236

• Bibliography
• p. 239

• General Index
• p. 253

• Index of Sources
• p. 258