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Julia Agrippina, most commonly referred to as Agrippina Minor or Agrippina the Younger, and after 50 known as Julia Augusta Agrippina ( Minor Latin for the ‘ younger ’, Classical Latin: ;, 7 November 15 or 6 November 16 – 19 / 23 March 59 ) was a Roman Empress and one of the more prominent women in the Julio-Claudian dynasty.

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The family tree below is a combination of the Ahenobarbus family tree and its relations with the members of the Julio-Claudian dynasty.

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Category: Julio-Claudian dynasty

A member of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, he was the son of Drusus and Antonia Minor.

They do live on as sources for the surviving histories of the Julio-Claudian dynasty.

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In this period, the Colonna started claiming they were descendants of the Julio-Claudian dynasty ( similar spurious claims are common among the old Roman nobility, the Massimo case probably being the best known ).

Caligula was a member of the house of rulers conventionally known as the Julio-Claudian dynasty.

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* 37 – Nero, Roman emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty ( d. 68 )

One such family, the Flavians, or gens Flavia, rose from relative obscurity to prominence in just four generations, acquiring wealth and status under the emperors of the Julio-Claudian dynasty.

Modern history has refuted these claims, suggesting these stories later circulated under Flavian rule as part of a propaganda campaign to diminish success under the less reputable Emperors of the Julio-Claudian dynasty and to maximize achievements under Emperor Claudius ( 41 – 54 ) and his son Britannicus.

On 9 June 68, amidst growing opposition of the Senate and the army, Nero committed suicide, and with him the Julio-Claudian dynasty came to an end.

The name derived from Julius Caesar's cognomen " Caesar ": this cognomen was adopted by all Roman emperors, exclusively by the ruling monarch after the Julio-Claudian dynasty had died out.

Germanicus Julius Caesar ( 24 May 15 BC – 10 October AD 19 ), commonly known as Germanicus, was a member of the Julio-Claudian dynasty and a prominent general of the early Roman Empire.

Germanicus ' grandson was Emperor Nero-died 68 AD-the last of the Julio-Claudian dynasty.

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This marble statue of a youth on horseback is believed to represent a member of the Julio-Claudian dynasty

With his death, the Julio-Claudian dynasty came to an end.

/ great-nephew blood relationship and / or adopted son relationship was commonly found between the rulers of Julio-Claudian dynasty.

Through his youngest daughters, Antony would become ancestor to most of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, the very family he had fought unsuccessfully to defeat.

Caligula had both Julian and Claudian ancestry, making him the first actual " Julio-Claudian " emperor.

Although her marriage with Augustus produced only one pregnancy, which miscarried, through her sons by her first husband, Tiberius and Drusus, she is a direct ancestor of all of the Julio-Claudian emperors as well as most of the extended Julio-Claudian imperial family.

Antonia Major ( in Latin: Antonia Maior, PIR < sup > 2 </ sup > A 884 ) ( b. August / September 39 BC ), also known as Antonia the Elder, was a daughter of Mark Antony and Octavia Minor and a relative of the first Roman Emperors of the Julio-Claudian dynasty.

Through Junia Lepida, a great-great granddaughter of Augustus, both of Cassia's daughters by Corbulo were direct descendants of the first Roman emperor and thus, surviving members of the Imperial Julio-Claudian family.

The fourth Emperor, Claudius, was the first to assume the name " Caesar " upon accession, without having been adopted by the previous emperor ; however, he was at least a member by blood of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, being the nephew of Tiberius and the uncle of Caligula.

She was twice married to the potential successor in the Julio-Claudian dynasty, first to Augustus ' grandson Gaius Caesar ( died 4 AD ) and later to Tiberius ' son Drusus ( died 23 AD ).

The earliest roads, built in the first phase of Roman occupation ( the Julio-Claudian period 43 – 68 ), connected London with the ports used in the invasion ( Chichester and Richborough ), and with the earlier legionary bases at Colchester, Lincoln ( Lindum ), Wroxeter ( Viroconium ), Gloucester and Exeter.

Another distinguished lady of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, Claudia Octavia, who was the first wife of the emperor Nero, was banished to Pandateria in 62 AD and executed on the orders of her husband.

The term is derived from the Latin dominus, meaning lord or master, an owner versus his slave — this had been used sycophantically to address emperors from the Julio-Claudian ( first ) dynasty on, but not used by them as a style — Tiberius in particular is said to have reviled it openly.

His Histories describes a year of crisis for the young empire in 69, when for the first time the system established by the Julio-Claudian dynasty as a solution to civil war was severely tested by the question of succession.

The Nervan-Antonine dynasty was a largely artificial one, chiefly built out more of adoption than blood relations, as in the Julio-Claudian or Flavian dynasties ( the first Emperor of this dynasty was an elderly, childless man, from the noble Cocceii Nervae ).

Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus ( 11 December, 17 BC-January 40 ) was a close relative of the five Roman Emperors of the Julio-Claudian dynasty.

* 68 – Roman Emperor Nero commits suicide, after quoting Homer's Iliad, thus ending the Julio-Claudian Dynasty and starting the civil year known as the Year of the Four Emperors.

Nero ( Latin: Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus ; 15 December 37 – 9 June 68 ) was Roman Emperor from 54 to 68, and the last in the Julio-Claudian dynasty.

The Julio-Claudian dynasty of the early Roman Empire has a family tree complicated by multiple marriages between the members of the gens Julia and the gens Claudia.

Roman imperial guard, bas-relief from the Julio-Claudian dynasty | Julio-Claudian period.

As such, it includes history of the Julio-Claudian Dynasty and Roman Empire, from Julius Caesar's assassination in 44 BC to Caligula's assassination in 41 AD.

It sought to portray the peace and fertile prosperity enjoyed as a result of the Pax Augusta ( Latin, " Augustan peace ") brought about by the military supremacy of the Roman empire, and act as a visual reminder of the Julio-Claudian dynasty that was bringing it about.

Esther Shapiro claimed that an inspiration for the show was I, Claudius, a fictionalized depiction of the Julio-Claudian dynasty of Roman emperors.

* Roman Emperors family tree ; also Julio-Claudian family tree and Severan dynasty family tree

They suggest that later Roman chroniclers such as Suetonius and Dio Cassius were influenced by the political situation of their own times, when it may have been useful to the current Emperors to discredit the later Julio-Claudian Emperors.

But while Roman women held no direct political power, those from wealthy or powerful families could and did exert influence through private negotiations .< ref > Kristina Milnor, " Women in Roman Historiography ," in The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Historians ( Cambridge University Press, 2009 ), p. 278 ; Ann Ellis Hanson, " The Restructuring of Female Physiology at Rome ," in Les écoles médicales à Rome: Actes du 2 < sup > ème </ sup > Colloque international sur les textes médicaux latins antiques, Lausanne, septembre 1986 ( Université de Nantes, 1991 ), p. 256 .</ ref > Exceptional women who left an undeniable mark on history range from the semi-legendary Lucretia and Claudia Quinta, whose stories took on mythic significance ; fierce Republican-era women such as Cornelia, mother of the Gracchi, and Fulvia, who commanded an army and issued coins bearing her image ; women of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, most prominently Livia, who contributed to the formation of Imperial mores ; and the empress Helena, a driving force in establishing Christianity as the official religion of Rome.

Roman lady from the Julio-Claudian dynasty | Julio-Claudian period