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Caligula and was
She was the second granddaughter of the Emperor Augustus, sister-in-law, stepdaughter and daughter-in-law of the Emperor Tiberius, mother of the Emperor Caligula, maternal second cousin and sister-in-law of the Emperor Claudius and the maternal grandmother of the Emperor Nero.
Apart from being the late maternal grandmother of Nero, she was the late paternal grandmother of Princess Julia Drusilla, the child of Caligula.
She was a great-granddaughter of the Emperor Augustus, great-niece and adoptive granddaughter of the Emperor Tiberius, sister of the Emperor Caligula, niece and fourth wife of the Emperor Claudius, and mother of the Emperor Nero.
Through his mother Antonia Major, Domitius was a great nephew of Augustus, first cousin to Claudius, and second cousin to Agrippina and Caligula.
In 39, Agrippina and Livilla, with their maternal cousin, Drusilla's widower Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, were involved in a failed plot to murder Caligula, a plot known as the Plot of the Three Daggers, which was to make Lepidus the new emperor.
He was the only child of Agrippina the Younger through her first marriage to Domitius, and through her, he was great-great grandson of the Emperor Augustus, great-grandnephew and adoptive great-grandson of the Emperor Tiberius, nephew of the Emperor Caligula, as well as great-nephew and stepson of the Emperor Claudius.
Because he was afflicted with a limp and slight deafness due to sickness at a young age, his family ostracized him and excluded him from public office until his consulship, shared with his nephew Caligula in 37.
On 24 January 41, Caligula was assassinated in a broad-based conspiracy involving the Praetorian commander Cassius Chaerea and several senators.
The annexation of Mauretania, begun under Caligula, was completed after the defeat of rebel forces, and the official division of the former client kingdom into two Imperial provinces.
Claudius has been portrayed in film on several other occasions, including in the 1979 motion picture Caligula, the role being performed by Giancarlo Badessi in which the character was depicted as an idiot, in contrast to Robert Graves ' portrait of Claudius as a cunning and deeply intelligent man who is perceived by others to be an idiot.
Caligula (; 31 August AD 12 – 24 January AD 41 ), also known as Gaius, was Roman Emperor from 37 AD to 41 AD.
Caligula was a member of the house of rulers conventionally known as the Julio-Claudian dynasty.
He was soon given his nickname Caligula, meaning " little ( soldier's ) boot " in Latin, after the small boots he wore as part of his uniform.
The adolescent Caligula was then sent to live first with his great-grandmother ( and Tiberius's mother ) Livia.
In AD 31, Caligula was remanded to the personal care of Tiberius on Capri, where he lived for six years.
To the surprise of many, Caligula was spared by Tiberius.
According to historians, Caligula was an excellent natural actor and, recognizing danger, hid all his resentment towards Tiberius.
An observer said of Caligula, " Never was there a better servant or a worse master!
Suetonius claims that Caligula was already cruel and vicious: he writes that, when Tiberius brought Caligula to Capri, his purpose was to allow Caligula to live in order that he "... prove the ruin of himself and of all men, and that he was rearing a viper for the Roman People and a Phaëton for the world.

Caligula and born
The six children who survived to adulthood were the sons: Nero Caesar, Drusus Caesar and Caligula born as Gaius Julius Caesar Germanicus and the daughters Julia Agrippina or Agrippina the Younger, Julia Drusilla and Julia Livilla.
According to Suetonius, Caligula nursed a rumor that Augustus and Julia the Elder had an incestuous union from which Agrippina the Elder had been born.
The Julian and Claudian emperors frequently visited it: Gaius Maecenas had a villa at Antium ; both Emperor Caligula and Nero were born in Antium ; the latter founded a colony of veterans and built a new harbour, the projecting moles of which still exist.
Phaedrus ( c. 15 BC – c. 50 AD ), Roman fabulist, was probably a Thracian slave, born in Pydna of Macedonia ( Roman province ) and lived in the reigns of Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula and Claudius.
* On this day, the future Roman Emperor Gaius Caesar Augustus Germanicus ( born 12, died 41, emperor 37 – 41 ) " Caligula " was named consul by the Roman Senate in 31.
Named after her late aunt and her father's favorite sister, Julia Drusilla, Julia was born not long after Caligula married Caesonia ( some sources have her being born on the same day as the marriage ).
When Drusilla, as the child was called, was born, Caligula took her to a temple that housed statues of goddesses and placed her on the lap of Minerva, instructing the goddess to nurse and train his new daughter.
Ramzan Akhmadovich Kadyrov (, ; born 5 October 1976, Tsentoroi, RSFSR, USSR ), also known as Yazid ibn Muawiya or the Chechen Caligula, is the Head of the Chechen Republic and a former Chechen rebel.
Pliny the Elder reports that Germanicus ' son, the future emperor Gaius ( Caligula ), was born " among the Treveri, at the village of Ambiatinus, above Koblenz ", but Suetonius notes that this birthplace was disputed by other sources.
Nero was uncle to Julia Drusilla ( daughter of Caligula ) and through his sister Agrippina the Younger was uncle to the Emperor Nero ( born Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus ).

Caligula and third
More commonly remembered in history by his childhood nickname Caligula, he was the third Roman Emperor ruling from 37 to 41 AD.
Caligula seized Nero's inheritance and sent him to be raised by his less wealthy aunt, Domitia Lepida, who was the mother of Valeria Messalina, Claudius's third wife.
In 41, Claudius succeeded Caligula, and then, at the behest of his third wife Valeria Messalina, banished Seneca to Corsica on a charge of adultery with Caligula's sister Julia Livilla.
Brown University suggests that the form " Layamon " is etymologically incorrect, while The Fifth International Conference on Brut at Brown University mentions: " BL MS Cotton Caligula A. ix spells it "" ( the third letter is called a " yogh ").
Caligula, his successor as the third Roman Emperor, commissioned a study in 40 AD from Egyptian experts who claimed incorrectly that the Corinthian Gulf was higher than the Saronic.
In 2003, he was nominated for a third Olivier Award for his performance in Caligula at the Donmar Warehouse and had a breakthrough performance as the British politician Tony Blair in the television film The Deal.
Lollia Paulina ( died c. 49 CE ) was a Roman Empress for six months in CE 38 as the third wife and consort of the Emperor Caligula.
In CE 38, Paulina was with Regulus at the province he was governing when Caligula ordered her to leave her husband upon overhearing a remark about her grandmother's beauty — Paulina was forced to divorce Regulus and marry Caligula, becoming his third wife and Empress that same year.
* 41, Assassination of Emperor Caligula, Raid against the Chauci under Emperor Claudius, Recovery of third legionary standard lost in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest.

Caligula and six
The couple had six children: Nero Caesar, Drusus Caesar, the Emperor Caligula, the Empress Agrippina the Younger, Julia Drusilla, and Julia Livilla.
Caligula divorced her after six months of marriage, ostensibly because she was infertile, and forbade her to sleep with or associate with another man.
While Captain Marvel is empowered by six mythological and Biblical figures, Ibac is empowered by four of the most evil and terrifying men to have ever walked the earth: Ivan the Terrible, who supplies Terror, Cesare Borgia, who gives Ibac Cunning, Attila the Hun, who gifts him with Fierceness, and Caligula, the sponsor of Cruelty.

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