Drusus

Drusus. Bust from the Koninklijke Musea voor Kunst en Geschiedenis, Brussel

Drusus (38-9 BCE): Roman prince, conqueror of Germania.

Full name: Nero (Decimus?) Claudius Drusus

Relatives:

Father: Tiberius Claudius Nero
Mother: Livia
Stepfather: Augustus
Wife: Antonia Minor
- Son: Germanicus
- Daughter: Livia Julia (Livilla), married to Drusus the Younger
- Son: Claudius

Life:

38, between 18 March and 13 April: Born (shortly after Livia had married Octavian)
18 Quaestor
16 Succeeds Tiberius as praetor after he has left Rome
15 Propraetor in the Rhaetian War; birth of Germanicus
13-11 Propraetor of the Rhine army (I Germanica, V Alaudae, XVII, XVIII, XIX); foundation of Nijmegen, Xanten, Moers-Asberg, Neuss, Bonn, Mainz
13 Census in Gaul
12 Dedication of the Altar of Roma and Augustus in Lyon; campaign against the Sugambri; treaties with the Frisians and Chauci
11 Praetor urbanus; renewed attack on the Sugambri; foundation of Holsterhausen and Oberaden
10 Birth of Claudius; third campaign in Germania, from Mainz against the Chatti, and to the Sugambri again
9 Consul; fourth campaign in Germania; Drusus reaches the Elbe; death after fall from horse
Cenotaph in Mainz, final burial place in the Mausoleum of Augustus

Other:

Arch of Drusus, Rome
Cenotaph in Mainz
Monument in La Turbie
Canal of Drusus

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