Tiberius Claudius Nero , later Tiberius Julius Caesar, best known simply as Tiberius , was the second Roman Emperor, for 23 years, from 14 to 37. His reign is one of the best-documented of all, with many preserved speeches and letters, as well as observations from contemporaries and very detailed information on his personal decisions and preferences, providing material for his typing. His character and personality puzzled and fascinated contemporaries as well as historians, ancient and modern, and he is one of the most studied Roman Emperors. A prestigious Spanish physician, Gregorio Marañón, went as far as to analyse Tiberius’s psychology, in his classic “ Tiberius: a Study in Resentment ”, a book praised by Ronald Syme, the 20 th century’s foremost Roman historian. I argue, therefore, that there is plenty of reliable material with which to deduce his Socionics type. Tiberius belonged by birth to the ancient patrician clan Claudius, one of the most prestigious during the centuri...
An international resource on Socionics, a theory of personality type.