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Tiberius Claudius Nero. Mother. Livia Drusilla. Nero Claudius Drusus Germanicus (38–9 BC), commonly known in English as Drusus the Elder, was a Roman politician and military commander. He was a patrician Claudian but his mother was from a plebeian family. He was the son of Livia Drusilla and the stepson of her second husband, the Emperor ...
Vipsania Agrippina. Drusus Julius Caesar (7 October c. 14 BC – 14 September AD 23), also called Drusus the Younger, was the son of Emperor Tiberius, and heir to the Roman Empire following the death of his adoptive brother Germanicus in AD 19. He was born at Rome to a prominent branch of the gens Claudia, the son of Tiberius and his first wife ...
Drusus Caesar[i] (c. AD 8 – 33) was the grandson by adoption and heir of the Roman emperor Tiberius, alongside his brother Nero. Born into the prominent Julio-Claudian dynasty, Drusus was the son of Tiberius' general and heir, Germanicus. Sejanus, the prefect of the Praetorian Guard, had become powerful in Rome and is believed by ancient ...
Nero Julius Caesar. Nero Julius Caesar (c. AD 6–31) was the adopted grandson and heir of the Roman emperor Tiberius, alongside his brother Drusus. Born into the prominent Julio-Claudian dynasty, Nero was the son of Tiberius' general and heir, Germanicus. After the deaths of his father and of Tiberius' son, Drusus the Younger, Nero and his ...
Tiberius was adopted in 26 June as full son and heir, [35] and in turn he was required to adopt his nephew Germanicus, the son of his brother Nero Claudius Drusus and Augustus's niece Antonia Minor. [ 33 ] [ 36 ] Along with his adoption, Tiberius received tribunician power as well as a share of Augustus's maius imperium , something that even ...
Julio-Claudian dynasty. The Julio-Claudian dynasty comprised the first five Roman emperors: Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, and Nero. [2] This line of emperors ruled the Roman Empire, from its formation (under Augustus, in 27 BC) until the last of the line, Emperor Nero, committed suicide (in AD 68). [note 1] The name Julio-Claudian is ...
Tiberius' forces were attacked by German troops on the way west back to the Rhine, but successfully defended themselves. [14] [18] The Drususstein in Mainz was erected in 9 BC as part of a funerary monument to Drusus the Elder. The elite of the Cherusci tribe came to be special friends of Rome after Tiberius's campaigns of AD 5.
Britannicus was born on or about 12 February 41 in Rome, to Emperor Claudius and his third wife, Valeria Messalina. As such, he was a member of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, specifically of the gens Claudia. [note 1] Britannicus' father had been reigning for less than a month, and his position was boosted greatly by the birth of an heir.