A river running through Rome that recurs across pivotal moments in the city's late antique history. It swallowed half of Maxentius's army when the pontoon bridge collapsed during the Battle of Milvian Bridge in 312, and his body was later found on its banks; over a century later, an emperor's dismembered remains were cast into it by a Roman populace enraged by his failure to prevent the Vandal sack of the city. In the sixth century, Belisarius used the Tiber as an axis of advance during his relief of Rome, sending half his force upstream by boat before the operation was abandoned.
What each episode says
Episode 3 (1 mention)
The river crossed by the Milvian Bridge, into which half of Maxentius's army was cast when the pontoon bridge collapsed and the old Milvian Bridge became a death trap for the panicked soldiers. Maxentius's corpse was found washed up on its shore.
“him all the way back to the old Milvian Bridge, a narrow causeway across the Tiber.”
Episode 6 (1 mention)
The river into which the dismembered pieces of the unnamed elderly senator-emperor were thrown by the Roman populace who blamed him for allowing the Vandals to sack the city.
“the entire disaster, dismembered him and threw the pieces into the Tiber.”
Episode 9 (1 mention)
The river along which Belisarius launched his bold amphibious relief of Rome — half his men marching on the southern bank and half sailing upstream — before he was turned back by the false news of Isaac's capture.
“bank of the Tiber, and the other half sailing upstream in support.”
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