Herodotus in Context: Ethnography, Science and the Art of Persuasion Book

Mediocre. It seems an attempt at giving a fair portrayal of an often unkindly-considered old man who happened to find himself princeps of the Roman Empire due to the machinations of his intriguing mother. A number of things were distinctly absent, such as anything beyond mention of rumors of improper behavior on Tiberius's part, though with nothing about what that behavior was; also, Germanicus's death was not portrayed in enough depth for my liking. I mainly read it to see how Robert Graves's portrait in I, Claudius stands up, and frankly, being only half-familiar with the primary source material, I almost prefer Graves for a biography of Tiberius Caesar.