Drusus the Younger

Bust of Drusus the Younger (Archaeological Museum, Palermo)

Drusus the Younger (14 BCE - 23 CE): name of a Roman prince, son of the emperor Tiberius.

Life

16 or 15 BCE, 7 October: born as the son of Tiberius and Vipsania Agrippina
4 Receives the title caesar
5? CE: Marries Livilla, daughter of Drusus and Antonia
11: Quaestor
14 Sodalis Augustalis; sent to Pannonia to repress a mutiny
15 Consul; death of a son
17-20: Proconsul in Illyricum
20, 28 May: Ovatio
20, December: Birth of the twins Germanicus and Tiberius Gemellus
21: Consul II
23: Death of Germanicus
23, 14 September: death. Drusus was probably buried in the Mausoleum of Augustus

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