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Caligula was born in Antium on 31 August AD 12, the third of six surviving children of Germanicus and his wife and second cousin, Agrippina the Elder.Germanicus was a grandson of Mark Antony, and Agrippina was the daughter of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa and Julia the Elder, making her the granddaughter of Augustus. [5]
Tiberius Julius Caesar Nero, [1] [2] [3] known as Tiberius Gemellus (10 October AD 19 – 37/38), was the son of Drusus and Livilla, the grandson of the Emperor Tiberius, and the cousin of the Emperor Caligula.
Tiberius was, in turn, required to adopt his nephew Germanicus, the father of Caligula and brother of Claudius. Caligula adopted his cousin Tiberius Gemellus (grandson of the emperor Tiberius) shortly before executing him. Claudius adopted his great-nephew and stepson Nero, who, lacking a natural or adopted son of his own, ended the reign of ...
Caligula, the sole surviving son of Germanicus, or Tiberius's own grandson, Tiberius Gemellus, were possibly candidates. [90] However, Tiberius only made a half-hearted attempt at the end of his life to make Caligula a quaestor , and thus give him some credibility as a possible successor, while Gemellus himself was still only a teenager and ...
The subjects consist of: Julius Caesar (d. 44 BC), Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, Nero, Galba, Otho, Vitellius, Vespasian, Titus, Domitian (d. 96 AD). The work, written in AD 121 during the reign of the emperor Hadrian , was the most popular work of Suetonius , at that time Hadrian's personal secretary, and is the largest among his ...
Died probably of natural causes, allegedly murdered at the instigation of Caligula [54] Caligula Gaius Caesar Augustus Germanicus: 18 March 37 – 24 January 41 (3 years, 10 months and 6 days) Grandnephew and adopted heir of Tiberius, great-grandson of Augustus: 31 August 12 – 24 January 41 (aged 28)
The details point to Caligula, son of Germanicus and Agrippina the Elder, and emperor of Rome from 37 to 41, the ministry said, adding that there are literary references that seem to confirm the ...
Caligula 12–41 r. 37–41: Agrippina the Younger 15–59: Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus 17 BC–40 AD: Drusus Caesar: Aemilia Lepida: Manius Aemilius Lepidus: Junia Calvina 15–79: Lucius Vitellius the Younger 16–69: Vitellius 15–69 r. 69: Domitian 51–96 r. 81–96: Domitia Longina 53–130: Galba 3 BC–69 AD r. 68–69: Aemilia Lepida ...