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Ancient Roman adoptees
- Tiberius GemellusTiberius Gemellus entered the world on the 10th of October AD 19. This date marked a rare event in Roman history, as he was born alongside his twin brother…
- TiberiusTiberius Claudius Nero stood before the rostra in Rome on 32 BC. He was nine years old when he delivered the eulogy for his biological father.
- Constantius ChlorusFlavius Valerius Constantius entered the world on the 31st of March, though historians cannot name his birth year. His career and the age of his eldest son…
- AugustusOn the 8th of May 44 BC, a teenager named Gaius Octavius accepted a dead man's will and, with it, the most dangerous inheritance in the Roman world.
- Marcus AureliusMarcus Aurelius was born in Rome on the 26th of April 121. His birth name is sometimes given as Marcus Annius Verus, but sources assign this name to him upon…
- NeroLucius Domitius Ahenobarbus was born on the 15th of December AD 37 in Antium. His father died when he was three years old, leaving him an orphan at a young…
- Marcus Junius BrutusMarcus Junius Brutus was born in late 85 BC into the illustrious plebeian gens Junia. His father, also named Marcus Junius Brutus, served as tribune of the…
- Lucius VerusLucius Ceionius Commodus entered the world on the 15th of December 130 in Rome. He was the first-born son of Avidia and Lucius Aelius Caesar, who served as…
- HadrianPublius Aelius Hadrianus drew his first breath on the 24th of January in the year 76. He emerged into a world centered in Italica, a Roman town founded by…
- GalbaServius Sulpicius Galba arrived in the world near Terracina on the 24th of December 3 BC. He emerged from a wealthy family that held no blood ties to the…
- Pliny the YoungerGaius Caecilius Cilo was born in Novum Comum around 61 AD. His father Lucius died when the boy was still young. Pliny lived with his mother after that loss.
- TrajanMarcus Ulpius Traianus arrived in the world on the 18th of September AD53 within the Roman province of Hispania Baetica.
- Antoninus PiusTitus Aurelius Fulvus Boionius Antoninus entered the world on the 19th of September 86 near Lanuvium in Italy. His father held the consulship of 89 and…
- GermanicusGermanicus Julius Caesar entered the world on the 24th of May 15 BC in Rome. He was born to Nero Claudius Drusus and Antonia Minor, placing him at the heart…
- Scipio AemilianusPublius Cornelius Scipio Africanus Aemilianus entered the world in 185 BC as the second son of Lucius Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus and his first wife Papiria…
- SejanusLucius Aelius Sejanus entered the world around 20 BC in the Etrurian town of Volsinii. He belonged to the Seia gens, a family of the Equites class or knights.
- Severus AlexanderOn the 13th of March 222, the Roman army hailed a thirteen-year-old boy as emperor. This young man was Marcus Aurelius Severus Alexander, grandson of Julia…