Germanicus

Bust of Germanicus. Altes Schloß, Stuttgart

Germanicus: (15 BCE - 19 CE): Roman prince, waged war in Germania.

Family:

Father: Drusus
Mother: Antonia Minor
Wife: Vipsania Agrippina Maior
- Sons: Nero Julius Caesar, Drusus Julius Caesar, Tiberius Julius Caesar, an unknown son, Gaius Julius Caesar, Gaius Julius Caesar (=Caligula)
- Daughters: Agrippina Minor, Julia Drusilla, Julia Livilla

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Bust of Germanicus, found in the Roman Baths of Smyrna. Archaeological Museum of Izmir

Life:

15, 24 May: born as son of Drusus and Antonia Minor
4 BCE, 27 or 28 June: Adopted by Tiberius: Germanicus Caesar
5 CE: Marries Vipsania Agrippina
6 Birth of Nero Julius Caesar
7 Quaestor
7 or 8: Birth of Drusus Julius Caesar
7-9 Propraetor in Illyricum (suppression of the Pannonian revolt)
9 Rank of praetor; imperator; triumphal ornaments; birth and death of Tiberius Julius Caesar; Battle in the Teutoburg Forest
10 Birth and death of an unknown son
11 Propraetor in Germania; birth and death of Gaius Julius Caesar
12 Consul; birth of Caligula
13 Proconsul in Germania
14 Death of Augustus; accession of Tiberius; soldiers' rebellion suppressed; attack on the Marsi and Bructeri
15 Attacks on the Chatti and Marsi; recovery of the eagle of the Nineteenth legion; visit to the Teutoburg battlefield; birth of Julia Agrippina Minor in Cologne (perhaps 16)
16 Naval expedition; battle of Idistaviso
16/17 Birth of Julia Drusilla
17 Triumph
17/18 Visit to Lesbos, birth of Julia Livilla
18 Consul II (accepted in Nicopolis)
18-19 Tour through the east
19, Spring: Alexandria
19, 10 October: Dies in Antioch
20, Spring: Burial in the Mausoleum of Augustus

Literary Works

Germanicus composed a poem on astronomy.

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